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BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 



N.B. — The names of donors and lenders, when known, are printed in italics. 



THE FIRST FLOOR. 

DIRECTORS' ROOM, CLERK'S OFFICE, TOPO- 
GRAPHICAL ROOM. 

I The Friday Club, Chief Justice Shaw in the chair; j^hoto- 
graph of (beginning on the left) Charles P. Curtis, 
Thomas Motle\', Nathan Hale, Benjamin R. Curtis, James 
K. Mills, George Hayward, Lemuel Shaw, Francis C. 
Gray, Nathan Appleton, Charles H. Warren, William 
vSturgis, Thomas \V. Ward, Thomas B. Curtis. 

NatJiau Appleto7r. 

1 The Massachusetts Humane Society, incorporated in 
1 791 ; photograph of the members about 1857 (beginning 
on the left), Francis Bacon, George B. Upton, R. B. 
Forbes, William Amory, William Appleton, Samuel 
Hooper, David Sears (in the chair), Francis B. Crownin- 
shield, John Homans, Charles Amory, J. Mason Warren, 
S. K. Lothrop. Sanniel H. RnsseU. 

3 The Tremoxt Club, the nucleus of the wSomerset Club, 
about 1840 ; photograph of (beginning on tlie left) the 
steward, F. C. Loring, F. Codman, Kirk Boott, James 
Davis, G. Crowinshield, Benj. Morse, T. Cary, C. Ham- 
mond, Gardner Gorham, J. Bethune, Frederick Sears, F. 
Crowinshield, T. G. Appleton, W. Lee, Thomas Dvviglit, 
Arthur L. Payson, Thomas Perkins, Edward Crowin- 
shield, Dutton Russell, Frank Dutton. 

Nathaii Appleton. 



4 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

4 The South Side of State Street, near Washington Street, 

in 1S40 ; engraved on wood by Devereux & Brown. 

Alexander Williams. 

5 " The Nativity ; " heliotype engraving of a painting b}' 

Copley, owned by Lord Lyndhurst and sold by his ex- 
ecutors. Hc7iry P. Curtis. 

6 " The Finding of Moses ; " heliotype engraving of a 

painting by Henry Pelham, half-brother of Copley {v. 
No. 355). Henry P. Curtis. 

7 Wendell Phillips; crayon portrait by F. E. Wright, 1S71. 

,/. W. Black. 

8 Samuel Miller Quincv, 1S33-S7; Colonel Second Regi- 

ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, 1S62 ; Brevet-Brigadier- 
General, 1S65; one of the charter members and first 
secretary of the Bostonian Society ; photograph of a 
crayon portrait by Grundmann. 

9 Framed Original Design for the seal of the Bostonian 

Society, in India ink ; adopted Feb. 13, 18S3 ; drawn by 

John C. J. Brown. 

10 The Act of Incorporation of the Bostonian Society, 

Dec. 3, 18S1, signed by Henry B. Feirce, Secretary of 
State, 1722 (2), 1734, 1774 (3)^ 

11 '••The Last Days of Daniel Webstp:r ;" oil painting by 

Joseph Ames, of the death-bed of Webster, with portraits 
of his family and friends, whose names follow, beginning 
on the left, as in the key : Charles H. Thomas, Jacob Le 
Roy, Edward Curtis, Mrs. Daniel Webster, Mrs. James 
W. Paige, Samuel A. Appleton, James W. Paige, George 
Ashmun, Rufus Choate, Peter Han^ey, Fletcher Webster, 
Daniel Webster, Caroline L. Appleton (Mrs. Jerome Bon- 
aparte), Master Daniel Webster, Master Ashburton Web- 
ster, Mrs. Fletcher Webster, Caroline Webster, Dr. J. 
Mason Warren, Dr. John Jeffries, wSarah (colored servant), 
John Taylor, Porter Wright (farmers). 

Prank K. Sturgis. 

12-50 Maps and plans of Boston for the years 1722, 1774, 17S9, 
1796 (2), 1800, 1803, 1814, 1820, 1823, 1S36, 1S27, 1832, 
1834, 1835 (3), 1837 (3), 1838, 1844, 1846, 1847, 1S4S, 
1S49, 1850, 1853, 1853, 1855, 1858, 1859, 1864, 1870, 1875, 
1883, 1883, ^888, 1891, 1S92, 1S94. 

51 Reproduction, upon one sheet, issued in 1S46, of two old 
maps of New England, the first of which is entitled : 
"The South Part of New England, as it is Planted this 
yeare, 1634;" an exact copy of the first that was made 



THE FIRST FLOOR. 5 

Reproduction — Continued. 

after Massachusetts was settled. It was taken from a book 
published in London by William Wood, entitled: "•New 
England's Prospect." The Second is entitled : '' A Map 
of New England, being the first that ever was here cut, 
and done by the best Pattern that could be had, which be- 
ing in some places defective it made the other less exact; 
yet doth it sufficiently shew the scituation of the Countrey, 
and conveniently well the distance of Places ; " an exact 
copy of one published in 1677, to accompany a work en- 
titled : "The present State of New England, by William 
Hubbard." It was the first map engi^aved in this country, 
and was highly praised for its elegance and accuracy. 

John Foster Bush., M.D. 

52 Photographic Reproduction, somewhat reduced, of an 

original map found among the manuscripts in the British 
Museum, supposed to have been executed by Gov. John 
Winthrop, about 1634, showing the Plantation of Boston 
and the surrounding country. Boston Public Library. 

53 Reproduction in fac-simile of an original plan, entitled : 

" A Draught of Boston Harbor: By Capt. Cyprian South- 
ake, made by Augustine Fitzhugh, Anno 1694;" copied 
for H. F. Waters, Esq., from the original in the British 
Museum, 12th August, 1S84. This is the earliest maj^ of 
Boston Harbor which has yet been found, and is executed 
in colors. Henry F. Waters. 

54 Heliotype Reproduction, entitled : " Carte de la Ville, 

Baye et Environs de Boston. Par Jean Baptiste Louis 
Franquelin, Hydrog. du Roy, 1693. Verifiee par le Sr de 
la Motte." 

55 A Similar Map by Franquelin, made in 1693, to aid a scheme 

to capture " Baston " by a French Expedition from Qiie- 
bec ; heliotype reproduction. lViIlia>n W. Greciiough. 

55 Reproduction, made in 183^ of an early map, entitled: 
"The Town of Boston in New England, by Capt. John 
Bonner, yF^tatis %w^ 60. Engraven and Printed by Fra. 
Dewing, Boston, N. E., 1722. Sold by Capt. John Bon- 
ner, and William Price against ye Town-house, where may 
be had all sorts of Prints, Mapps, etc." 

57 A Reproduction, made in 1870, of an early map showing 

the topography of Boston Harbor, originally published 
according to Act of Parliament by J. F. W\ DesBarres, 
Esq., August 5, 1775 ; lithograph by A. Meiscl. 

58 Lithograph by Tidd of Boston after an old cut in the " Penn- 

sylvania Magazine," dated -July 31, 1775, entitled : " Exact 
Plan of General Gage's Lines on Boston Neck in America." 



6 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

59 Heliotype Reproduction, made for Frothingham's " Siege 

of Boston," in 1S79, entitled: "Plan of the Town of Bos- 
ton, with the Intrenchmcnts, etc., of His Majesty's Forces 
in 1775' fi'om the Observations of Lieut. Page, of His 
Majesty's Corps of Engineers; and from the Plans of other 
gentlemen." Engraved and printed for William P^addcn, 
Charing Cross, Oct. i, 1777. 

60 Heliotype Reproduction, made in 1S75, of two maps upon 

one sheet, entitled respectively : "A new and Accurate 
Plan of the Town of Boston in New England, i774 ' " ''^"'^ 
"A New Plan of Boston Harbor from an Actual Suney, 
1 774'" The original plate was engraved in England, from 
an accurate Survey by British Engineers, just previous to 
the Revolutionary War. Williani S. Appleton. 

61 General Washington's Revolutionary Campaign War Map, 

after a Survey ordered by him, showing the position of 
his Army in defence of Boston, 1776, also the Fortifications 
and Gun Batteries, extending from Charlestown around to 
Dorcliester Pleights. Albert O. Crajic. 

62 Reproduction, made in 1S76, by George Lamb, of a map, 

entitled: "A Plan of Boston in New England, with its 
Environs including Milton, Dorchester, Roxbury, Brook- 
^^ line, Cambridge, Medford, Charlestown, Parts of Maiden 

and Chelsea, with the Military Works constructed in those 
Places in the years 1775 and 1776. Dedicated to the Right 
Honorable Lord George Germain. London : Published 
according to Act of Parliament, June 3, i777'> ^y Henry 
Pelham." 

63 Plan of the " Burnt District," 1S72. Thomas Minns. 

64 French Map of the port and harbor of Boston and the 

adjacent coast ; dedicated to the King by the Chevalier de 
Beaurain, 1776 ; given by M. Muret, Surveyor of the 
City of Paris, to WilUain Watson. 

65 Plan of the Back Bay and pulilic parks, 1877. 

W. H. Whitmorc. 

66 Eight Views of Tremont Street before the widening in 1869, 

reproductions of photographs in possession of the Public 
Library ; framed together. 

67 Colonnade Row, from a photograph in ]30ssession of the 

Public Library. 

68 Four Views of Tremont Street about iSoo; framed together. 

5g Panoramic View of Tremont Street, east and west sides, 
from Court Street to the Common, Jidy, 1853, from a 
wood-cut in Gleason's " Pictorial and Drawing-room Com- 
panion." 



THE FIRST FLOOR. 7 

70 Pi.AN of the Boston Park System, from the Common to 

Frankhn Park, furnished by the Park Department. 

71 IJeacon Hill in 1736, showing the estates and their owners, 

by Alexander Miller, civil engineer. David M. Balfour. 



Case No. i. 

Daguerreotype of Charles Sumner, taken in i8£53, '^^y South- 
worth & Hawes, and engraved for Pierce's " Life of 
Sumner." Edward L. Pierce. 

Cameo bust of Josiah Qiiincy, a:t. SS, cut in 1S60, by Stevenson, 
a well-known artist of that day. Josiah P. ^ulncy. 

Hadge and ribbon of the Order of the Cincinnati, once owned 
by General Dearborn, and worn by him in Washington's 
presence in 1789. Samuel H. Russell. 

Menu of banquet to the Lispectors of Buildings of the United 
States, Feb. 15, 1S94, by the Assistant Inspectors of 
Boston. Jo// II T. Daly. 

l?iLL signed by Major Thomas Melville, of the " Boston Tea 
Party," March i, 1821.^ 

Menu of dinner given to the Commercial Clubs of Chicago, 
Cincinnati, and St. Louis by the Commercial Club of 
Boston, 1885. 

Signatures of John Hancock and others in aid of the petition 
of Benjamin Gault to sell liquor, 1773. 

Edivard I. Brov:ne. 

Wheel through which passed the rope of a bell in Christ 
Church, 1740; an inside wheel runs on ball bearings. 

The Wardens and Vestry. 

Photograph of Ole Bull and in\itation to a complimentary 
concert at the Music Hall, 1876. 

Medal with [portrait bust of P. S. Gilmore made from the wood 
of the " Coliseum " of 1S69, Sylvester Baxter. 

Programme of the excursion of the S. A. R. to Bemiington, 
Aug. 19, 1S91 ; with the names of the party. 

Bill of the "Cromwell's Head" Inn, in School street, Dec. 21, 
1785. 

Manuscript elegy on Gov. John Hancock, 1793. 

Geo. O. Carpenter.^ Jr. 

Ballads of the War of iS I 2. P'rank W. Sprague. 

A List of the killed and wounded on the 19th April, 1775. 



8 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

Case No. i — Continued. 

Birthplace of Edward Everett on Boston Street, Dorchester, 
issued on the centennial anniversary of his birth, April ii, 
1894. 

Piece of the ship " Cadmus," which brought Lafayette to Amer- 
ica in 1824. 

Vase and cane from wood of the Hancock House. 

Rev. H. F. Jenks. 

Handbill; appeal to tar and feather George Thompson, which 
led to the Garrison riot, Oct. 21, 1S35. B. V. French. 

The Ninth Issue of the first daily newspaper issued in New 
England, " The Polar Star and Boston Daily Advertiser," 
Oct. 15, 1796. 

A COPY of the second newspaper published in America, started 
Dec. 21, 1719, merged with the "New England Weekly 
Journal " in 1741. 

Receipt given by Major Ben Russell, of the " Columbian Cen- 
tinel," 1813. 

First number of the "Daily Evening Transcript," July 24, 
1S30. Curtis Guild. 

Sword worn by Col. W. V. Hutchingsof the 24th Massachusetts 
Regiment, from 1S61 to 1865. 



Case No. 2. 

Photograph of arms of George III,, once in the Council 
Chamber of the Old State House ; removed to Halifax on 
the Evacuation of Boston in 1776. 

Photograph of Col. Benjamin Pollard, first commander of the 
Independent Corps of Cadets; from a portrait. 

Bill of William Price for cleaning pictures in the Old State 
House in 1740-41. 

Three Photographs of St. Botolph's, Boston, England. 

Photograph of the bust of Longfellow in Westminster Abbey, 
London. 

A Bullet from Bunker Hill, and one from Stillwater (1777). 

Edward I. Browne. 

Gold watch and seal once owned by Jonas B. Brown, of Bos- 
ton, who died in 1835, cet. 40 years. 

]\Iiss Harriet L. Broxvn. 



THE SECOND FLOOR. 9 

Case No. 2 — Continued. 

Photograph of Diinicl Webster, from a daguerreotype, taken 
in his 64th year. Warren G. Roby. 

Badge worn at the inauguration of Bunker Hill Monuinent in 
1S43. C. E. Midlett. 

Photograph of Deacon Moses Grant (1745-1817), of the " Bos- 
ton Tea Party." Miss Alice Grant. 

Photographs of the Wc]:)ster House, aiul monument, and Innial 
lot at Marshfield. //. L. J/adloc/c. 

The Gov. Winslow House at Marshfield, and secret closet in 
the house; photographs. //. L. Hadlock. 

Silver plate and books taken from the box placed under the 
corner-stone of the Merchants' Exchange, Aug. 2, 1841. 

Francis Cabot., Secretary. 

Photographs of interior of the Williams House, Roxburv. 

Walter E. EJnving. 
A Watchman's Rattle. E. II. Savage. 

Autographs and autograph letters of Governor Hutchinson, 
Daniel Webster, J. L. Motley, Alvin Clark (with por- 
trait), Fanny Kemble, Prof. J. W. We1)ster, Joshua Bates, 
O. W. Holmes, Commodore Isaac Hull, Samuel G. Flowe, 
Laura Bridgman, John Hancock, Robert C. Winthrop, 
President Felton (with photograph), Governor Gore, Wm. 
Lloyd Garrison. 

Photograph of the library of James Russell Lowell, at Elm- 
wood, Cambridge. 

Photographs of Caleb Gushing, Dr. George C. Shattuck, and 
Harriet Beecher Stowe. 

Bill-head of John Hancock, merchant and patriot. 



SECOND FLOOR. THE ilEMORlAL 
HALLS. 

REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 

72 Laying the Corner-stoxe of the Beacon Hilt, Reser- 
voir, Nov. 22, IS47 ; oil painting by Moses Wiglit,, with 
key, containing portraits of the Mayor, Josiah C^uincy, 
Jr. ; ex-Mayors Josiah Qiiincy, Sr., and S. T. Arm- 
strong; Nathan Hale, T. B. Curtis, and J. F. Baldwin, 
water commissioners; City Marshall Tukey, and members 
of the City Council and Government. 

Loan : City of Boston. 



lo BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

73 Photograph of the Reservoir, which was demolished in 

i8S3;from the Curtis Collection. Henry P. Curtis. 

74 Samuel Phillips Savage, of Weston, 171S-97 ; Member of 

the Provincial Congress ; President of the Massachusetts 
Board of War, during the Revolution ; Judge of the Court 
of Common Pleas for Middlesex County ; presided at the 
meeting in the Old South Meeting-house, Dec. 14, 1773, to 
protest against the landing of the taxed tea ; photograph 
after Copley. Alexander Cochrane. 

75 Rev. Daniel Sharp, D.D., born in England, 17S3, died 

1S53 ; Pastor of the Charles Street Baptist Church, iSi3- 
1S53; lithograph by Thayer, after a daguerreotype. 

76 The Same : steel engraving by Sartain, after Harding. 

William H. Whitmore. 

77 Edward Thompson Taylor ("Father Taylor"), 1794- 

1S71 ; a sailor in his youth, became a Methodist preacher 
in 1S19; for many years at the Seamen's Bethel; photo- 
graph. James W. Black. 

78 Harrison Gray Otis, 1765-1S4S; U.S. Senator, 1817-33; 

Mayor, 1839-32 ; colored crayon hy Dubourjal, 1845. 

Loan : Frederick O. Prince^ Executor. 

79 Rev. Lyman Beecher, D.D., 1775-1S63; Pastor of Han- 

over Street Church, afterward 13owdoin Street, 1826-32 ; 
lithograph by Chandler ci. Bro., after Grozelier. 

80 Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, D.D., 1730-66; copper-plate en- 

graving portrait bust, executed in London by Cipriani for 
one of the Hollis family ; within a wreath are the words : 
" Remarks on an anon, tract. P. LXXXIL I am indeed 
a poor man ; " hanging therefrom are a bishop's mitre, re- 
versed, and a crozier, referring to his controversy with the 
Episcopal missionary Apthorp in 1763; underneath is the 
inscription : " Jonathan Mayhew, D.D., pastor of the West 
Church in Boston, in New England [1747- 1766], an as- 
sertor of the Civil and Religious Liberty of his country 
and mankind, who, over-plied by Public energies, died of 
a nervous fever, Ivly VHII, MDCCLXVI, aged XXXXV." 

81 Rev. Joseph Sewall, D.D., 16SS-1769; Pastor of the Old 

vSouth Church, 1713-69; copper-plate engraving, with fac- 
simile autograph. William H. Whitmore. 

82 Rev. Cotton Mather, D.D., 1663-1828; Minister of the 

North Church, 1684-173S ; heliotype reproduction in India 
ink of a portrait in Harvard College Library, by Sarah 
Moor head. Justin Winsor. 



THE SECOND FLOOR. ii 

83 Daniel Wehstek, 17S2-1S53; steel en<^iaving by Cheney 

ami Dodson, alter Staiog, A/oscs VV. Wc/d, M.D. 

84 James Jackson, M,D., 1777-1S67; engravinj^ hv WagstalV 

and Andrews. Moses W. Weld, Sl.D. 

85 Rev. John Sylvester John Gardiner, D.D., 176:5-1830; 

Rector of Trinity Chnrch, 1805-30; President of the lit- 
erary club which conducted the AittJiology and Month iy 
Rcviczc ; lithograph by Mary M. Maguire. 

86 Rev. Baron Stow, D.D., 1S01-1S69; Pastor of the Baldwin 

Place Baptist Church, i S3 2-48 ; of the Rowe vStreet 
Church, 1848-67; engraving liy Sartain, after Alexander. 

\Villia?n //. WIntniorc. 

87 Alexander Parris, 1780-1S52 ; Architect of the (^uinc\' 

Market and St. Paul's Church ; crayon portrait b\ Chick- 
ering. Mrs. B. B\ CJiandlcr. 

88 Rev. Sebastian Streeter, D.D. ; Pastor of the First Uni- 

versalist Church, 1824-64; Rev. Thomas W. Sulloway. 
Associate Pastor, 1S61 to 1864, when the Societv was dis- 
solved ; double photograph. T//omas Jl\ Snlloxvay. 

8g Crocker and Brewster, full-length photograph of Uriel 
Crocker and Osmyn Brewster, inscrilied : '' This pic- 
ture was taken on INIr. Crocker's ninetieth birth(la\-, and 
is presented to the Bostonian Societv by Uriel Crocker, 
Feb. 3, 1S87." 

90 Rev. Thomas Baldwin, D.D. ; Pastor of the Second Baptist 

Church from 1790 to 1S25 ; engraving by Hoogland, aftei' 
Miss Margaret B. Doyle.' 

91 Captain Joitn Linzee, R.N., Commander of II. B. M. .Ship 

" Falcon" at the Battle of Bunker Hill. He married the 
daughter of Ralph Inman, of- Cambridge, and was the 
grandfather of Mrs. Prescott, wife of the historian; etching 
by Miss Ajzfiie T. Pratt. 

92'THOMAS Smith Webb, 1771-1819; engraved portrait bust l)y 
Annin & Smith, after Penniman, commemorative of his 
services as one of the founders and first president of the 
Handel and Haydn Society ; dedicated to the Masonic Fra- 
ternity and to the H. & PI. and Philharmonic vSocieties, by 
the painter and engravers ; the bust resting on Handel's 
'^ Messiah," open, and other musical and masonic works ; 
behind, an organ and masonic emblems. 

93 Benjamin Franklin, 1706-90; copper-plate engraving In 
Tanner, after Cochin (in fur cap), 1777- 

Ha 1)1 lit 0)1 A. Hill. 



12 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

94 William Emmons, an actor known as "Pop" Emmons, a 

familiar character forty years ago ; litliograph by Pendle- 
ton, after Johnston. 

95 Nathaniel Shepard Prentiss, M.D., 1766-1S53; for 

thirty years town clerk of Roxbury ; oil portrait by Bass 
Otis. Rev. yose-ph Banvai'd., D.D. 

96 Re\^ John Thornton Kirkland, D.D., 1770-1S40; Presi- 

dent of Plarvard College, 1S10-2S ; lithograph by Pendle- 
ton, after Stuart, iSio. Rev. Sam //el May. 

97 Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett, D.D. , 1S01-71 ; Pastor of Fed- 

eral Street and Arlington Street Churches, 1S24-71 ; pho- 
tograph. Sam//el M. Bcdll)/o-ton. 

98 Rev. Edward Dorr Griffin, D.D., 1770-1S37 ; first Pas- 

tor of Park vStreet Chvnxh, 1S11-15 ; engraving by Sartain, 
after Waldo. Airs. Thomas A. Emerson. 

99 Rev. William Ellery Channing, D.D., 1780-1842 ; Pas- 

tor of Federal Street Church, 1 803-1 S42 ; engraving bv 
Hoogland, after Harding. E. G. Li/cas. 

ICO Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. {v. No. 80) ; steel engrav- 
ing by Wright Smith. JSIattJiew A. Alayhezv. 

lOi REv^ James Davis Knowles, 1798-183S; Pastor of the 
Baldwin Place Baptist Church, 1835-32 ; engraving by 
Chorley, after Doyle, 1S29. E. G. L//cas. 

102 Rev. Sebastian Streeter, D.D. {y. No. 88) ; litliograph 

by Bouve, after Rowse. William H. Whitmore. 

103 Daniel Simpson, 1790-18S6; Drummer in the War of 1812 ; 

in the 24th Massachusetts Volunteers in the Rebellion ; for 
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company over seventy 
years, and for the New England Guards over fifty years ; 
oil portrait by Darius Cobb, life-size, two-thirds length, 
seated, holding his 'drum (No. 104). Da//icl Simpson. 

104 Snare-drum beaten at the Battle of Biinker Hill by John 

Robbins, having on its side the date "• 1771," with motto: 
"• A//t vincere a/tt tnori." Daniel Simpson. 

105 Jonas Chickering, 179S-1853; manufacturer of piano- 

fortes; photograph of a lithograph by Grozelier. 

George II. Chickcrii/g. 

io5 Edward Kendall, 180S-1862; Bugler to tlie New England 
Guards ; took the first prize at Covcnt Garden, London, 
1846 ; lithograph by Fabronius. Saim/el W. Clifford. 

107 Francis I., Duke of Lorraine, 1708-176^; married Maria 
Theresa, 1736; elected Emperor of Germany, 1745. 

Arnim M'/iller. 



THE SFXOND FLOOR. 13 

108 Maria Tiikrp:sa, 1717-17S0, Empress of Germany, suc- 

ceeded Cliarles VI., 174O) t^^'*^ colored engravings from 
life, by Engelbrecht. Arti/ju Midler. 

109 Parsonage of Bratti.k Sqijai{k CiiuRcir, formerly standing 

in Court vStreet, on the site of the building lately occupied 
by Adams Express Co. ; water-color bv Fuller, i8^v 

Samuel If. Russell. 

no Rev. John Goriiam Palfrey, D.D., 1796-18S1 ; Pastor 
of Brattle Square Church, 1818-1S30; ISIcmber of Con- 
gress, 1S47-9; Postmaster, 1861-6; relief bust in plaster. 

Samuel J\f. Bedlington. 

111 Brattle Sc^uare Church, i 172-1871 : photograph. 

D. ll'aldij Salisbury. 

112 Boston Harror, from Fort Hill; oil painting by J. ^V. A. 

.Scott, 1S53. 

113 Four Silk Ensigns of the New England (juards (chartered 

181 3), specified as follows: 

vState Flag, inscribed : " 4th Battalion, ist Brigade, ist 
Division, New England Guards." 

Battalion Color of white silk, inscribed: "New Eng- 
land Guards, instituted September 23, 181 3. Presented 
by S. Abbott Lawrence, October 30, 1S37." 

Ensign of blue silk, displaying on its respective sides the 
shields of the States of New York and Massachusetts, and 
bearing upon the pole a silver plate engraved as follows : 
" Presented to the New England Guards on the occasion 
of their first visit to New York, July 31, 1844, by the ex- 
members of the Corps residing in the city at the time." 

National Ensign, lettered as follows: "4th Battalion, 
M.V.M." 

Above th.em a blue silk company guidon, inscribed: 
"N. E. (;., 1813." 

The Ncxv Ei?gla7td Guards' Association. 

114 John Wilkes, .Serjeant Glyn, and Rev. John Horne ; 

colored mezzotint, engraving by Houston, published in 
London, 1769. Loan: Samuel H. Russell, 

115 Boston, from Dorchester Heights; oil jxiinting by Sec- 

man. A. C. Bald-.vi?i. 

116 Clock owned by the Hon. William Sullivan (i77l~^S39) ' 

made by Aaron Willard, of Roxbury. 

Loan: Mrs. Elizabeth A. Tcjuiey. 



14 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

117 Jean Cheverus, 1768-1S36; first Roman Catholic Bishop 

of Boston, 1S10-1823 ; Bishop of Montauban, 1823 ; Arch- 
bishop of Bordeaux, 1S36 ; Cardinal, 1835; lithograph by 
Moore, after Stuart, 1S26. John C. Flynn. 

118 Rev. William Mattocks Rogers, born in Alderney, 1S06, 

died 18^1 ; Pastor of Central Church, 1835-51 ; colored 
lithograph. Airs. Charles P. Strong. 

119 The New England Guards, in camp on Savin Hill, under 

command of Capt. George VV. Lyman ; oil painting upon 
a mahogany panel, inscribed: "September 11, 1819. 
Painted by B. B. Curtis." ./. Putnam Bradlee. 

\10-1\ Two Slx-pound Brass Field-pieces, with engraved 
inscription : " Cast and Mounted by order of the Board of 
War, for the New England Guards, 1814," with sponge-rod 
and rammer. One of the cannon was fired by Lafayette 
on his visit to the encampment of the Guards at Savin Hill 
in 1824. The JVexv England Guards' Association. 

122 John Jeptries, M.D., 1745-1S19; in his costume as an 

aeronaut, with barometer, etc., in his balloon, copper-plate 
engraving; also his portrait at a later period, lithograph by 
Pendleton, after Greenwood ; the column erected to com- 
memorate the spot in the forest of Guines, France, where 
Dr. Jetliies and Blanchard, the aeronaut, landed after their 
balloon voyage from England to France, Jan. 7? ^7^5 ' 
copper-plate engraving by Johnson, after Greenwood; 
framed togetlier. Loan: B, Joy Jeffries., AI.D. 

123 Rev. Ephraim Peabody, 1S07-1856; Pastor of King's 

Chapel, 1846-56 ; photograph. Nathan Appleton. 

124 James Madison, 1751-1S36; President of the United States, 

1S09-1817 ; oil portrait, after Stuart. 

Loan : A Republican Institution. 

125 Joshua Bates, born in Weymouth, Mass., 17SS, died 1S64; 

of the firm of Baring Brothei's & Co., London ; lienefactor 
of the Boston Public Library ; photograph of a bust. 

Loan: City of Boston. 

126 Peleg Whitman Chandler, 1816-S9; lawyer, city solic- 

itor of Boston ; engraving by Buttre, from a daguerreotype. 

Edzvi/i F. Waters, 

127 William Abrams, Merchant, of Middle (now Hanover) 

Street; born Jan. 16, 1742; died Sept. 27, 1S43, aged loi 
years, 8 montlis, 11 days; lithograph. 

Geonre W. Sargent. 



THE SECOND ELOOR. 15 

128 Alfred Charles Iloiuis, 1S12-1891 ; in\cnt(M-; picked 

Braham locks at the World's Fair, London, 185 1 ; steel 
engravin<^ l)y Hales' Sons. Alfred C. Hobhs. 

129 A View oi-' the "S'eau 1765; cop[)er-plate caricatnre 

print, engraved, printed, and soltl l)y Paid Revere. A note 
upon tlie margin says that' this print \vas found among the 
papers of William Alackay, grandfather of the donor (died 
1800), one of the "Sons of Liberty," and owner of the 
silver pnnch-bowl made for the " Sons " in Boston. 

Robert C. Mackay. 

130 " The Oldi:.st House in America," 1634, the Craddock 

House, Medford ; bas-relief on metal, vvitii inscription. 

Willi am T. Lcggett. 

131 Benja^iin Lincoln, 1733-1S10; ALnjor-General in tlie 

Revolutionar}' Armv ; .Secretary of War, 1 781-4; Lieu- 
tenant-Governor, 1788; first Collector of the Port, 17S9- 
1808; a framed policy of insurance for £1,000 upon liis 
life, underwritten by various persons. 

Loan : Sai)iuel T. Crosby. 

132 The Same; mezzotint engraving by Smith, after Sargent's 

portrait, in possession of the Massachusetts Historical 
.Society, to which the plate is dedicated. 

Charles E. Clark, M.D. 

133 Rev. Joseph Stevens Buckminster, 1784-1S13; Pastor 

of Brattle .Square Church, 1805-13; framed ndniature on 
ivory. ]\/rs. Nathaniel Walker. 

134 David Francis, 1779-I853; Boston bookseller, of the firm 

" Munroe & Francis ; " Trustee and Secretary of tlie M. 
C. M. A., 1814-26; Vice-President, 1827; Commander 
of the Rifle Rangers; (m1 portrait by Clark. 

David G. Francis. 

135 John Collins Warren, ]\LD., 1778-1S56; one of the 

founders of the Massachusetts General Hospital ; Professor 
in Harvard College, 1S06-46 ; engraving h\ .Smith, after a 
daguerreotype by Whipple. Closes VV. Weld. M.D. 

136 Thomas Coffin Amorv,Jr., 1812-89; Chief Engineer of 

the Fire Department, 1S29; Alderman and Member 
of the School Committee; one of the charter members 
of the Bostonian Society ; photograph. 

Moses W. Weld, M.D. 

137 Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, D.D., born in Boston, 

180S; Baptist Clergyman and Professor; author of "My 
Country, 'tis of Thee ; " photograph. Samuel F. St)iith. 



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138 Rev. Chandler Robbins, D.D., 1810-S3; Pastor of the 

vSecond Church, 1S33-75 ; engraving by Wagstaff and 
Anchews, after a daguerreotype. Mrs. JF. JJ. JMlnns. 

139 Rev. Cotton Mather, D.D. {v. No. S2) ; engraving by 

Wagstaff and Andrews, after Pel ham. Mrs. F. B. Mitins. 

140 Rev. Henry Ware, Jr., U.D., 1794-1S43; Pastor of the 

Second Cliurch, 1S17-1830; Professor in Harvard College, 
1839-42 ; engraving by Wagstaff and Andrews, after Froth- 
ingham. Mrs. F. B. Alinns. 

141 Rev. Increase Mather, D.D., 1639-1723; Pastor of the 

Second Church, 1664-1723; President of Harvard College, 
16S5-1701 ; engraving by Wagstaff and Andrews, atter 
Vanneck. Mrs. F. B. Minns. 

142 John Adams, 1735-1826; President of the United States, 

1 797-1801 ; engraving after Stuart. 

143 The Same; copper-plate engraving, half-length, seated; 

underneath, the American Eagle with thunderbolts ; drawn 
and engraved by Houston; inscribed: "His Excellency 
John Adams, President of the United States of America. 
Respectfully dedicated to the lovers of their country and 
firm supporters of their Constitution ; " published by Ken- 
nedy, in Philadelphia. William H. Whitmore. 

144 William Perkins, Merchant, 1773-1818; oil portrait on 

panel by Greenwood, 181S. Airs. Richard Perkins. 

145 Rev. Charles Francis Barnard, 1806-84; Pastor of the 

Warren St. Chapel, 1 834-1 866 ; photograph. 

Warren St. Chapel. 

146 Rev. Mather Bvles, D.D., 1706-17SS; Pastor of Ilollis 

Street Church, i733~^77'^' "^ Loyalist during the Revolu- 
tion ; engraving by Plarris. 

147 Rev. John Latiirop, D.D., 1740-1816; Pastor of the 

Second Church, 176S-1S16; engraving by Wagstaff and 
Andrews, after Stuart. JMrs. F. B. JMintis. 

148 Rev. John Clarke, D.D., born in Portsmouth, N.H., 

1755, died April i, 1798, delivering a benediction in the 
First Church, Boston, of which he was pastor from i77^- 
Engraving by Graham, after Lovett. Theodore H. Bell. 

149 Rev. Charles Lowell, D.D., 1782-1S61 ; Pastor of the 

West Cliurch, 1806-61 ; engraving by Sartain, after Hard- 
ing. Grcnvillc U. Norcross. 

150 Rev. .Samuel Barrett, D.D., 1795-1876; Pastor of the 

Twelfth Congregational Society, 1835-1S58; lithograph 
by Boiivc, after Bond. Mrs. Olive S. Plympton. 



thp: second floor. 17 

151 Rev. John Muurav, D.D., born in En^laiul, 1741, died in 

Boston, 1S15 ; founder of the Universalist Cluncli in 
America ; lithograph by Pendleton, after Johnson. 

Sanincl BatcJieldcr. 

152 Francis Gardner, Master of the Latin vSchool ; etching by 

Bicknell, of Hnnt's portrait. Greiivillc II. Norcross. 

153 William M. S. Doyle, Artist, proprietor of the Columbian 

Museum; pastel by himself, 1828, a few days before his 
death. Mrs. Emily E. Mills. 

154 Faneuil Hall, interior; woodcut on India papei, by C. 

E. Johnson, 1S8S. 

155 Rev. Francis William Pitt Greenwood, 1797-1843; 

Pastor of King's Chapel from 1827 to 1S43; engraving 
by Kimberly, after ILiyward. C. O. Broxvn. 

156 Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis, Jr., 1796-1S73; assisted by a 

fair the completion of Bunker Hill Monument; secured 
v$io.ooo towards purchasing Mt. Vernon ; persuaded the 
Legislature to make Washington's birthday a legal holiday ; 
aided sick and wounded soldiers in the Rel)ellion ; full- 
length oil portrait by Healy, Paris, 1S76. 

Harrison Gray Otis. 

157 The Same ; half-length miniature steel engraving, by the 

American Bank Note Company, for the bills of the Mt. 
Vernon Bank. Harrison Gray Otis. 

158 Resolutions of the City Council, thanking Mrs. Otis 

for her services to sick and wounded soldiers during 
the Rebellion ; approved Nov. 4, 1865, F. W. Lincoln, 
Jr., Mayor; framed. Harrison Gray Otis. 

159 House No. 41 Mt. Vernon Street, residence of Mrs. Otis; 

interior view of the parlor, about 184^ 

Harrison Gray Otis. 

160-61 Two Fire Buckets (over door), inscribed: "Friend 
and Public, 1799, Edward Oliver." 

162 Two Cutlasses (over door), taken from a ship sunk off the 
harbor of Sebastopol during the Crimean War, and raised 
by Colonel Gowen, of Lynn. G. U\ Otis. 

163-68 The Arms of the Foxcroft, Mountfort, and Checkley 
families, of the Rev. Roger Price, 1734, of Sir Francis 
Nicholson, Lieutenant-Governor, 171 1, and of Capt. Fran- 
cis Hamilton, of H. M. Ship-of-War "Kingfisher;" 
painted on canvas i:)y Savory for the 200th aimiversary of 
King's Chapel. 

T/ic Wardens and Vestry of King\'i C/iapcl. 



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Case "A," the Hancock Case. 

Folio Bible, once owned by the Rev. John Hancock, of Lexing- 
ton, grandfather of the Governor, and by the Governor, 
containing the latter's antograph ; printed by James Wat- 
son, Edinburgh, 1722, Prankliii Hancock. 

Foi.io Prayer Book, printed at Oxford, 1721, once belonging to 
the Rev. John Hancock, of Braintree, father of the Gov- 
ernor, and to the Governor, with a portrait of George II., 
and other engravings. Fraiiklin Hancock. 

SiL\'ER Cigar Light, once belonging to Gov. Hancock. 

Airs. Richard Perkins. 

Decanter Stand of Gov. Hancock. Gridlcy J. F. Bryant. 

Photograph of Gov. Hancock's seal, enlarged. 

J\Irs. Alary S. Israel. 

CocoANUT with silver mounting once belonging to Gov. Han- 
cock, given by him to Mrs. Brackett, his house-keeper. 

Loan : George O. Carpenter. 

French Lacquered Snufl' Box, with motto, " Les trois passions 
de I'Homme," and pictures. Mrs. Richard Perkins. 

Snuff Box given to Mrs. Brackett by Mrs. Hancock. 

Loan : George O. Carpenter. 

Two Egg Cups made from wood of the Hancock House. 

Pranktin Hancock. 

Whist Counters with the Hancock crest, and cribbage board. 

Pranklin Haticock. 

Cloth on which is printed one-half the arms of the Hancock 
family. 

Framed Letter, written by [ohn Hancock from London, March 
2, 1761, to his step-father, Re\-. Daniel Perkins, of Bridge- 
water. Mrs. Richard Perkins. 

Shoe Buckles of Gov. Hancock. 

The Original Deed to the Town of Boston of Gov. Hancock's 
pasture, the site of the State House, for 5 vShillings, April 
27, 1795, by Dorothy Hancock, his widow. 

Loan : George B. Ager. 

Knocker from the front door of the Hancock House, given by 
Charles L. Hancock to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and 
by him to the Bostonian Society, with an accompanying 
letter. 



THE SECOND ELOOR. 19 

Case 'M," i/ie Hancock Case — Continued. 

Copper Tea-kcttlc made by Paul Revere, and once owned by 
Gov. Hancock. Franklin Hancock. 

(jO\'kknor Hancock's Punch Bowl and Pitcher. 

Fi-anklin Jlaticock. 

Shirt once owned and worn bv Gov. Hancock, marked " J. 
H." " Loan: Mrs. William Wales. 

A Silver knife and fork. 

A Leatiier-co\'ered trunk, marked " ]. H." 

Decorated Wine Ghiss Tray once owned by Governor Plan- 
cock ; given by his widow to the Perkins family, and to 
the Bostonian vSociety bv Mrs. Richard Perkins. 

Indenture of Apprenticeship of Thomas Hancock, son of the 
Rev. John Hancock, minister of Lexington, to Samuel 
Gerrish, bookl)inder. May 20, 171S. 

Gridley J. F. Br\'a)it. 

Tea-cup once owned b}' Gov. Hancock ; given by his widow to 
the Perkins family. ^Irs. Richard Perkins. 

Two Leather Pocket Books once belonging to Gov. Hancock. 

Franklin Hancock. 

Framed Aledallion jMiniature Busts of the Prince and Princess 
of Orange (William HL and Mary), Pope and Gay; from 
the Hancock House. Franklin Hancock. 

St. Paul's, London ; copper-plate engraving in miniatinx- by F. 
MuUer, 1750; frcMii the Hancock House. 

Franklin Ha?icock. 

Sonnet for Oct. 14, I793i ''when were entombed the remains 
of his Excellency John Hancock, Esq., late (governor and 
Commander-in-Chief of Massachusetts." 

Three Autographs t)f John Hancock. 

Court Suit, consisting of a crimson velvet coat, blue satin waist- 
coat, embroidered with gold, and dral) silk trimks, once 
owned and worn by (iov. Hancock. Franklin Hancock. 

Three Books from Gov. Hancock's pew in the Brattle Square 
Church. Franklin Hancock. 

vSlippicrs once owned b\- Gov. Hancock's wife. 

Two Canes made from wood of the Hancock House. 

Loan : Mrs. SaraJi B. Otis. 

Silver Pepper Box, 1^0 years old, with " L. H." on the bottom, 
property of Lydia Henchman, wife of Thomas Hancock, 
uncle of John Hancock. Franklin Ha/icock. 



20 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 



Case " B," the Autograph Case. 

Receipt of Henry W. Longfellow for royalties on " Evangeline," 
'• Courtship of Miles vStandish," antl " Hiawatha," paid by 
W. D. Ticknor & Co., iS6o. 

Selectmen of Boston ; autograph agreement with Thomas Joy 
for payment of balance for building the Town House in 
1660; from the Leffingwell Collection. 

Vote of Town Meeting, Feb. 16, 1669, and of the Selectmen. 
Jan. 30, 1671, granting a place for a house out of the town 
waste to Samuel Davis. 

Bill of Thomas Dawes against the Province of Massachusetts 
Bay for repairing the Town House, July, i773* 

John S. H. Fogg, M.D. 

Petition of John Barnard, Master of the North Grammar 
School, for an increase of salary, 1716; from the Leffing- 
well Collection. 

Petition of John Lovell, Master of the Latin School, for an in- 
crease of salary, about 1749 ; from the Leffingwell Collec- 
tion. 

Lovele's Memorial to the Governor and Council for payment of 
sei'vices as interpreter to the French Prisoners, i747 ' ^^^^ 
a bill for examining a French deserter from Crown Point ; 
from the Lethngwell Collection. 

Subscription List for the engraving of Ames' picture, " The 
Last Days of Daniel Webster " (No. 11), containing seven 
hundred autograplis. Mrs. Williaui Appleton. 

Petition for a license to Joseph Ballard, as proprietor of the 
British Coilcc House. Oct. 23, 1754, signed by James 
Bowdoin and others ; from the Leflingwcll Collection. 

Vote of the Town, May 13, 1774, on receipt of the news of the 
passage of the Boston Port Bill : letter of William Cooper, 
Town Clerk, of the same day, to the other colonies, an- 
nouncing the passage of the bill. 

Indictment of Capt. Preston and Soldiers for killing Samuel 
Maverick in the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770; from 
the LefHngvvell Collection, with an engraving. 

Inquest on tlie body of Michael Johnson (indorsed " Crispus 
Attucks"), March 6, 1770; from the Leffingwell Collec- 
tion. 

Bill of the State Bank for ten dollars, signed by William Gray, 
known as " Billy Gray," iSii. John S. Brayton. 



THE SECOND FLOOR. 21 

Case "j5," the Autograph Case — Co)itiiii(cd. 

Power-of-Attoknev given by Sir Isaac Coffin, Dart., to Wil- 
liam F. Otis, of Boston, March 31, 1S32. 

Letter of Sir Isaac Coffin concerning his school at Nantucket to 
Gov. Lincoln, April 16, 1834, with steel engraved por- 
trait by Ridley, of London, from a miniature. 

John C. J. Brown. 

Commission of Samuel Parker to be deputy Naval OiKcer of 
Boston, Julv I, 1S19; signed by Thomas Melville, Naval 
Officer/one of the "Tea Party." 

Hamilton A. Hill. 

A Volume of sermons, with the autograph of Chief Justice 
Sewall. Loan : Charles H. Hurd. 

WiELiAM Vv'arke.n ; engraved portrait by Wilcox, with two 
autographs. 

Letter of Paul Revere to Stephen Metcalf, July 30, 17^3; 
letter of Paul Revere and son to Enoch Ilorton, July 28, 
1809. 

Autographs and autograph letters of Josiah C^uincy, Jr. (tlic 
'' Patriot"), Wasliington Irving, R. II. Dana,. Jr., Edward 
Everett, Theodore Parker, Jolni Qiiincy Adams, Bishop 
Cheverus (2), Daniel Webster (2), Edwin P. Whipple, 
Robert C. Winthrop, George Bancroft, Edwin Booth, 
Mrs. M. A. Vincent, Laura Bridgman, Fanny Kemble, 
A. Graham Bell, Joseph vStory, Charles Sumner, Rufus 
Choate, Anson Burlingame. 

Case " C," the Miscellaneous Case. 

Ax English Brick from the Curtis House, Jamaica Plain, 1639. 
with a photograph of the house thereon. The house was 
occupied by Rhode Island troops during the vSicge of Bos- 
ton, and was demolished in 1SS6. Fred F. Hassatn. 

Copper bullet mould of the Revolutionary period. Stacy Hall. 

Mould for making spoons, brought from England in 1635. 

Miss Elizabeth l\och-xood. 

DooR-PLATK of the Holmes House, Caml)ridge, the birthplace of 
Dr. O. W. Holmes. 

Door-plate tVom the house in which Charlotte Cushman was 
born, in Richmond Street, July 23, 1S16. 

Mrs. C. E. Jlnchinson. 

SpECTACr,ES once owned by Gawen Brown, maker ot the Old 
South Clock. " John /?. Callender. 



22 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

Case " C," i/ie Allscellaneous Case — Continued. 

Iron-bound spectacles worn in Boston during the Revolution. 

Loan : George W. Maunder. 

Two Handkerchiefs, with pictures of the Battle of Lake Eric 
and of George Washington. 

Cane from wood of the "Constitution." C. C. Barry. 

Cane of Irish l^og-onk given to Robert B. Forbes, 1S47, in com- 
mand of tiie U.S. Sloop "Jamestown," with supplies to 
the Irish during the famine. 

Birch stick used by Charlotte Cushman at her last representation 
of " Meg Merrilics," at the Globe Theatre. 

Addison C/iild. 

Orange-wood cane once owned by Wendell Phillips. 

Edward Wat is. 

Hammer excavated near Plymouth Rock in laying the street rail- 
way. lVashingto7i G. Benedict. 

Surgeon's Saw used by Dr. David Jones at the Battle of Bunker 
Hill. 

Knife, Fork, and Spoon used during the Rebellion by J. II. 
Ilunneman, Jr., Co. H, Ninth Regiment Mass. Vols. 

Money Belt worn in the War of the Rebellion by J. H. Hunnc- 
man, Jr. 

Surgical instruments used bv Dr. Eliphalet Downer, one of tlie 
minute-men of Lexington, and Surgeon on the " Bon 
Homme Richard," under John Paul Jones. 

Airs. Nancy M. Dozvner. 

Old instruments for extracting teeth (2). 

Carved Ivory, done by a prisoner on an American privateer. 

Masonic punch-bowl presented to Col. Richard Gridley, about 
1765, and from which, it is said, Washington and Lafayette 
drank when visiting him. Loan : Satnnel H. Russell. 

Silver Snull-box of Thomas Miller, of Charlestown, Deacon of 
the First Church for 45 years, witli inscription. 

C. T. Synimcs. 

Fan once owned by Agnes vSurriage, Lady Frankland, about 
1760. Miss u\bby L. Alg'cr. 

Chinese Porcelain Bowl, with raised figures in colors, once 
owned by the Rev. Roger Price, lector of King's Chapel, 
1729-1746; commissary of the Bishop of London. 

Loan : Mrs. F. E. Weston. 



THE SECOND FLOOR. 23 

Case " C," t//c Miscellaneous Case — Conlunicd. 

Sauce-Pan owned In' Benjamin Franklin, given by liis sister, 
Jane Franklin Meconi, to Benjamin Sumner, who adniin- 
isterecl upon Franklin's estate. 

Loan : Mrs. J. S. I^ockivood. 

Linen Sheet once belonging to the Hancock family, given by 
Mrs. Hancock to Mrs. Brackett. 

Loan : George O. Carpeiiter. 

Harrison Liauguration ball in Faneuil Hall, March 4, 1S41 ; list 
of Managers ; framed card. R. E. Coclrrati. 

Police Badges used from 1701 to 1855; burglars' tools, etc., 
door-nips, slung- shot, jimmy, false keys, etc., taken from 
fiimous criminals from 1S40 to 1850. Edxvard H. Savage. 

First Day-badge of the Boston police, 1S36. 

Loan : S. F. Barrett. 

Sampler, worked by a sister of Gov. Hutchinson. 

Mrs. S. S. Alcxa7idcr. 

Buckles worn by Nathaniel Emmons, 1800. 

Carpenter's Square found in the Dean Winthrop House at 
Winthrop, with date " 1643." 

Mathematical instrument found on the site of the Shcafe House. 

W. W. Shreve. 

A Pair of silver shoe buckles. 

Tinder-Box, once belonging to Prof. Popkin, of Harvard Col- 
lege, class of 1793. Francis H. Bigeloiv. 

Sun Dial used in 1762. 

Ancient Dutch l)ox, with a perpetual almanac, 1497- 

Willi am J. A^eivcomb. 

Communion Cloth of Old Saxon linen given to the New North 
Church by Deacon Kettell in iSi3. 

Jvcv. Edward G. Porter. 



Case " D," the Military Case. 

The Complete Uniform and equipments of the Boston Hussars, 
worn bv their commander, Capt. Charles Porter Phelps, 
1811-1S18, with the Regulations of the Company. 

T/ic Phelps Family. 

Ancient Brass Military Ornament, such as was w^orn on tlie hat 
by Massachusetts militia-men. Jrremiak Colburn. 



24 BOSTONIAN S0CIF:TY. 

Case " Z>," t/ie Military Case — Contimied. 

NoN-CoMMissiONED Officer's Sword, brought to this country, with 
other arms, by Lafayette. Lotiis Roitdelle. 

SiLViiR-MOUNTED Court Sword, worn by James Bowdoin when 
Minister to Spain under Jefferson, and Assistant Minister to 
France. Thomas L. Winthrop. 

Officer's Dress Sword ; said to have been owned by Lafayette. 

Loan : Mrs. A. C. Clap p. 

Sword of Gen. Henry Jackson, 1770- H. Jackson. 

Brass front-piece of a British soldier's cap, dug up on Bunker 
Hill in grading the ground after the completion of the 
monument, by Edward Carnes, and given by him to 

George W. Forristall. 

Three Cannon Balls found at Louisburg, Cape Breton, after the 
capture of the fortress in 1745. Loan: Charles W. Lcxvis. 

Certificate of membership of Samuel Waters in the'^Winslow 
Blues," 1802. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Means. 

Flag once suspended from the " Liberty Tree," near the corner 
of Washington and Essex Streets. John C. Fernald. 



Case "E," the Tile and Miniature Case. 

Seven Tiles, printed by Sadler & Green in 175^1 the first 
specimens of printing on earthenware in this country ; 
from an old building in Dock Square. 

Gridley J. F. Bryant. 

Three Tiles from the house on the corner of Columbia and 
Essex Streets, used by Lord Percy as headquarters. 

John M. Little. 

Tile from the Bishop's Room in the house on the corner of 
Franklin and Federal Streets, taken out Feb. 28, 181^4. 

G. W. Adams. 

Tile from the house of James Barry, in Barry Court, otT Wash- 
ington Street. William C. Burr age. 

Tile from the Hancock house. ^. R. Urbino. 

Four Dutch Tiles from the fire-place in the house occupied by 
Cotton Mather, on the corner of Hanover and Prince 
Streets. Airs. Elizabeth L. Means. 

Bill of Damages of Experience Ingersol for articles destroyed in 
the burning of Charlestown in 1775 ; lo have been pre- 
sented to the British Commander ; photograph copy. 

Walter Ingersol Noble. 



THE SECOND FLOOR. 25 

Case " /i ," the Tile and Miniature Case — Contiinfcd. 

r^iHiiAUY of Gov. John A. Aiulicw In his honsc in Cliarlcs Sircct, 
after tlie War ; photograph. Horace P. Cliandlcr. 

Miniature Photographs of George Francis Train, monntetl on 
one card of cabinet size. Nathan Appleton. 

Photograph of the Woman and Lions, in Howard Street, 1S80. 

Nath a n Apple to )/ . 

The old Dorcliester Meeting-house, 174S-1S17; {)hotograph of 
an engraving. Bcnj. C/ishi/f^-. 

The OUlest Tombstone of Copp's Hill, 1664 ; photograph. 

lidivard MacDonalii . 

Photograph of the Tombstone of William Clark, on Cop{)'s 
Hill. Edzuard Mac Donald. 

A Copy of the New England Primer, 1781. 

The Book-plate of John Qiiincy Adams. 

Afiss Elizabeth C. Adams. 

Menu of the bancpict to Cardinal LessotFsky and officers of the 
Russian Heet by the City (jovernment. 

Note of the Bank of Pittsburgh for \zh cents, 1S12. 

William Sherburne. 

Order of Exercises, badge and invitation, at the Consecration 
of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Mass., Oct. 14, 
1 89 1. Sam?iel H. Ihissell . 

Illuminated Copy of an Address to PL M. Qiieen Victoria, bv 
the British-American Association of Boston, June 3, 1887. 

Robert B. Forbes; photograph. 

Rev. Charles Cleveland, City Missionary ; photograph when 
99 years of age. 

LiBBY Prison, Richmond, Va.. 1863 ; photograph. 

William W. Wheildon. 

Benjamin Sumner, Treasurer of Boston, 1803-^ ; photograph. 

Loan : Mrs. J. S. Lockivood. 

Joseph Henderson, High Sherifl'; miniature painted on ivory, by 
Amblard, in London, 1793. Fie read from the Balcony of 
the Old vState House the Declaration of Independence ; ami 
proclaimed the Treaty of Peace in 1783. 

Harrison G. Otis. 

Charlls H. Saunders, an actor, who made his first ap[)earance 
at the Warren Theatre in 1836 ; daguerreotype. 

i\frs. Sanfiders. 



26 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

Case " i?," fhe Tile and Aliniatiire Case — Co7ztinited. 

Rev. Joseph Stevens Buckminster {y. No. 133) ; miniature 
on ivory. Rev. S. B. Crujt. 

Benjamin Franklin, when Minister to France ; framed minia- 
ture. C S. cB H. W. Lincoln. 

The Hammond Famh.y, two silhouettes, by W. M. S. Doyle, 
about 1807. Loan : Sannicl H. Russell. 

Samuel Appleton {y. No. 243) ; a steel plate. 

Nathan Appleton. 

John Tileston, Master of the North Writing School, died 1S26, 
aged 90; photograph from a portrait by Greenwood, in the 
Boston Museum. James W. Black. 

Rev. W1LLIA.M Jenks, D.D., 177S-1SS6; Professor in Bowdoin 
College, 1S15-1S; Pastor of Green Street Congregational 
Chinch, 1S33-1845 ; framed photograph. 

Washington Allston, 1779-1S43; daguerreotype, after a por- 
trait by Staigg. Nathan Appleton. 

Francis Rotch, 1773, owner of the tea ships '"Beaver" and 
" Dartmouth," visited by the " Tea Party;" silhouette by 
Miers, of London. George W. Allan. 

Nancv, second wife of Francis Rotch, 1776-1S67; silhouette, 
" cut with scissors by Master Hubbard." 

Joseph and Francis Rotch, autographs, 1773, 1773. 

Professional Card of Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of Pres- 
ident Garfield, when practising law in Boston. 

Franklin S. Pratt. 

Visiting-card Plate of General and Mrs. Knox. 

A. A. Folso7ti. 

House, No. 477 Harrison Avenue, struck by a cannon-ball dur- 
ing the Siege of Boston, 1775-6; photograph. 

Last Relic of the Great Fire, 1872, a building on the corner of 
Congress and Purchase Streets; removed Dec, 1SS9. 

W. F. Mclntyre. 

Ticket for the first trip on the Boston & Worcester R.R., 1846. 

George O. Carpenter. 

Badge worn at the 300tli Celebration of the vSettlcment of Boston, 
1830, by Charles P. Cnrtis. 

Copper-plate block of the Old State House. James S. Smith. 

Bit of Iron from the roof of Haarlem Cathedral, Holland, with 
date, " 1662." Nathan Appleton. 



THE Sl'XOND FLOOR. 27 

Case " ^," tJic "file and Aliiiiatio-e Case — Co)itiiiucd. 

A Ticket to ;i military dinner ^iven in Philadelphia to the 
Boston City Guards, June 14, 1S31 ; framed. 

George P. j\/ay. 

A Goi.D Locket with two miniature portraits, picked up on the 
Bull Run battleheld in the fall of 1S63, by Henry W. 
Gore, Lieut., Co. C. 33d Re^. Mass. Vols. 

Ilciirv ir. Gore. 

Promissory note of Edward C^uincv and others for .£10, 177^- 

A/rs. Mary I^nzvcll P/ttz/a///. 



Case " F," the China Casi:. 

Old "Wood " platter, with a view (jf La Grange, the chateau of 
Lafayette. Given hv him to Elizabeth Dickson Jones, a 
former resident of I^oston. Loan : Samuel I). Deati. 

Old " Ridgway " platter, once owned l)y Major Thomas Dean, 
banker, of Boston, who commanded Fort Warren in 181 2. 

Loan : Samuel B. Dea?i. 

Plate ; Boston Common and State House. 

Plate, common white; a relic of the Great Fire. 1S7-. 

Plate; residence of Thomas H. Perkins, in Pearl vStreet, after- 
wards occupied by the Boston Athenannn. 

Pitcher, with lustre and piuple tlecorations, figures, legend, 
eagle, motto, etc. Loan : IV. J. Cireeji. 

Pitcher, cream-white earthen, thirteen stars on the side, one of 
the set first made in this country, about 1S08. 

Loan: Airs. Frances E. U'eslon. 

Pitcher, earthenw^are, small blue, the State House on one side, 
the New York City Hall on reverse. Amos A. Laivrcnce. 

Plate, porcelain ; once l^elonging to Gov. Gage, \\ ith birds, 
flowers, etc. ; from the loot of the Province House, 1776. 

Plate, blue earthenware ; the old hotel at Nahant. 

Loan : Samuel II. Russell. 

Platters (3) and butter-plate; "Bacon's Oyster House," site 
of Brigham's Hotel. Robert />'. Brighajii. 

Liverpool Pitcher, with Masonic emblems and portrait ot 
Washington upheld by the Goddess of Liberty ; made fen- 
Gen. John Hall, an oihcer of the Revolution, marked "J. 
and P. [his wife Persis] Hall." 

Loan : Mrs. Levi L. Nichols. 



28 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

Case " /^," /Ae CJii)ta Case — Con tinned. 

Plate ; Mitchell and Freeman's glass warehouse, Chatham St. 

Platter; the Court-House (Court Square). 

Pitcher, earthenware ; stamped in red on cream ground, with 
motto : " Success to the Crooked but interesting Town of 
Boston ; " on the reverse, a portion of one of Moore's 
poems. 

Pitcher ; ditto, black on cream. Richard Briggs. 

Plate ; the Marine Hospital at Chelsea ; earthenware. 

Plate ; Landing of the Pilgrims; made for the Bi-Centennial at 
Plymouth, by Enoch Wood & Sons, Burslem, England. 

Bejijaniin C. Clark, 
Plate ; ditto, small. 

Tureen, with view of Cains College, Cambridge, 300 years ago. 

Loan : J/iss EJizabctJi Rockivood. 

Plate ; Boston .State House. 

Plate; New South Church, Church Green. 

Pitcher ; Liverpool, black on cream, witli arms of the Coopers' 
Guild; on the reverse, a cooper at work, with motto: 
letter " F " on front. From the Fernald Family. 

Loan : Sajn7iel H. Russell. 

Pitcher ; Liverpool, stamped with shipwrights' arms, on the 
reverse the ship " Constitution ; " witli Masonic emblems 
and gilding ; inscribed "Joshua Pitman," and made for 
him after the Revolution. Loan : JosJiua H. Pitman. 

Pitcher; the " Enterprise" and " Boxer." 

Pitcher ; ship-building in Salem ship-yard, iSoo. 

Platter ; view of tlie Old Almshouse, Leverett Street, iSoo- 
1S25. 

China Tea-caddy, witli tea found in the pocket and boots of John 
Crane, one of the Boston Tea Partv, when taken injuretl 
to his home, Dec. 16, 1773. Mrs. Richard Pcrizins. 

Plate, with Harrison log-cabin, 1S40; glass. 

Aliss ElizabetJi Rociavood. 

Plate, with Bunker Hill Monument ; glass. 

Pepper-box, 150 years old. Miss ElizahetJi Rockivood. 

Milk-pitcher; Chinese cat, porcelain, blue on white; from the 
collection of Capt. Ebenezer Eaton, of Dorchester. 

Loan : Fred F. Hassani. 



THE SECOND ELOOR. 29 

Case "/^," ///c C//i>ia Case — Conti)i.i(cd. 

Tea-set, copper lustre, li^lit-bhie earthenware. 

r^oan : Mrs. I^^rauces E. Weston. 

Cup and Saucer, porcelain ; fioiu a full set taken from tlie l^ritish 
at Bennington by Gen. Stark, and given to Capt. Thomas 
riotchkiss, of Boston. J/;\s\ Walker. 

Pitcher, earthenware, wilh ]^urple ground and copper lustre; 
letters " D. S." in front, body covered witii arabesepies ; 
made in England for Capt. Daniel Sayward. 

Loan : Harrison Ell cry . 

Pitcher, English earthenware, cream-colored, with gilding, 
fluted, gilt stars on the sitlcs. Loan : Francis Lincoln. 

Pitcher ; blue Liverpool earthenware ; State House. 

Loan : Savin el H. Rnssclh 



Case "G," the j\Iodi:e and jNIedal Case. 

Model of the *' Cockerel Church," Hanover vSt., 1731-1S44, also 
called the " New Brick ; " the founders placed the figure 
of a cock as a vane upon the steeple, says Drake, out of 
derision of Mr. Thacher, whose Christian name was Peter 
(the pastor of the New' North, from which the founders 
of the "New' Brick" seceded). 

J/y.v. F. L. Wilson. 

Coffin-shaped box for valuables, made in 1S41 from wood of 
the "Constitution;" owned by Mrs. Harriet A. F. Cox 
Lewis ; ornamented with a silver coftin-plate of her mother, 
Susanna Hickling Cox, 1762 ; given by their descendants 

Joseph ami Snsanna Willard. 

Bronze model of the Old South Meeting-house. 

Bradford Kingman. 

House made from wood of the Old Elm, 185^. 

Loan : Joint 13. Callcnder. 

Vase from wood of the " Constitution." 

Mrs. R. Anne NicJiols. 

MoDEE of the " OKI Elm," ukuIc by the donor from wood of the 
tree after its destruction bv the gale of Feb. 15. 1S76. 

L nice J. Page. 

l^JoDEE of Daniel W'elister's liouse at Alarshlield, gi\en to tiie 
Hon. Peter Harvey by a member of the Webster family. 

Airs. Pclcr Harvey. 

Urn of live oak, matle from vvcjod of the frame of the frigate 
"Constitution," 1887, by James Miskclly. 



30 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

Case " C/," the Model and Medal Case — Continued. 

Model of a boat, with oars, etc, made for a member of the Perkins 
family by Robert B. Forbes. Mrs. Richard Perkins. 

(Javel used in the Board of Aldermen froin the organization of 
the City Government to April, 1S91, in an oak case. 

JYie Board of Aldermen. 

Brass door-knocker on wooden block, with inscription : " From 
the Winslow House, Marshfield, Mass.; came in 'May- 
flower,' 1620 ; presented by Hon. Daniel Webster to Dr. 
Winslow, Sept. I3, 1S50." 

Loan : Rev. William C. Winslow., D.D. 

Medal in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln ; bronze, struck 
in Paris, 1S65. 

Original die, in silver, of the great seal of the Province of New 
Hampshire, from 1693 to 1694, with impressions. 

Loan : The Misses Getchell. 

Photograph of the great seal of New Hampshire, granted by 
William HL, January, 1699, broken in Council by order 
of Qiieen Anne, under the royal warrant, October 39, 
1709. James R. Stanivood. 

Five shillings and sixpence of the Pine-tree paper currency of 
Massachusetts, 1779, under glass. Henry Guild. 

Pine-tree shilling, 1653; silver. Edxvard Turner. 

Another from the box placed under the corner-stone of the Mer- 
chants' Exchange, in 1S41. T'rancis Cabot., Secretary. 

Seal of the New England Numismatic and Archasological So- 
ciety, incorporated 1S66 ; silvered electrotype die. 

Charles Chaplin. 

Seal of the Plymouth Colony, 1630; silvered electrotype die. 

Charles Chaplin. 

Badge of the Marshal of the Fair for the Preservation of the Old 
South Meeting-house, December, 1S77. 

JVathan Applcton. 

Badge of the " Carnival of Authors," held in Music Hall, Janu- 
ary, 1S79. Nathan Appleton. 

Medal, bust of the Rev. John Pierpont, 17S5-1S66; pastor of 
Hollis Street Church, 1819-4^; bronze medallion framed 
in wood. " ^[oscs W. Weld, M.D. 

Tortoise-shell work-box, inlaid with pearl, the contents 
gold-plated, with embossed figures of flowers, etc., having 
a music-box attachment ; once owned by the family of 
Hartt, who built the " Constitution." The Misses Deland. 



THE SPXOND FLOOR. 31 

Case " G\" ///r j\Iodcl and JMcda/ Case — Cu it tinned . 

Medal commemorating the Battle of Porto licllo, Nov. 2, 1739, 
by Admiral Vernon, tor wlioni Alt. Vernon was named ; 
composition. diaries Ji. Clark ^ M.D. 

Block of the woodcut used l)y the Lampligliters of Boston on 
their New Year's Address, 1S2S. 

Medal of the Old Guard of New York, worn in the paratle in 
Boston, on tiie 250th anniversary of the Ancient and Hon- 
orable Artillerv Company, June 4, 1888; gilt. 

William 7\ I\. A/arvin. 

Medal conunemorative of the Colnml)us Celebration, and the in- 
auguration in Boston of a statue of the Discoverer of 
America, Oct. 3i, 1S92 ; wliite metal, with badge. 

Nathan. Apple ton. 

Rev. John Pierpoxt ; clectrot3-pe portrait from a seal cut by 
Mitchell. 

Badges \\o\\\ by Committees of the Legislature to the Centennial 
Celebrations, in Philadelphia, 1SS7 ; Columbus, Ohio, 
iSSS; New York, 1889; gilt. H. M. Kicliards cf- Co. 

Medals of the Foreign Exhibition, in Boston, 1S83. 

Nathan Applcton. 

Lafayette Gloves, buckskin, with portrait, worn at the time of 
his visit to Boston, in 1S24. John Gilbert. 

Badc.e of Boston Veteran Firemen's Association Centemiial, 
Sept. 15, 18S7. William C. Lazvrence. 

Medal of the Massachusetts Plumane Society, given to Geo. W. 
Rossiter, of the Ship " New World," for rescuing many of 
the crew of the ship " Ocean Monarch," burned at sea, 
Aug. 24, 184S; gold. Frank E. Hatch. 

Latin .School Medals, Fraid-;lin Medals, Town and City Medals, 

Medal of the JSalem .Street Academy ; silver: gifts or loans 

from Mrs. Richard Perkins, 

William JMarhle. Henry Guild., Mrs. L. C. J. Toivnc, 

Joint T. Prince., ]Fm. P. Shrevc. and others. 

.Stone from the Tower of .St. ]5otolph's Chuicli. Boston, Eng- 
land. 

Medal of the Massachusetts Humane v^ociet\. Abbott La-..-rencc. 

Medal, with the arms of the Bostonian Societv. woiii at tiie Cen- 
tennial Celebration in Philadeli)hia, Sept. L7, 1S87, by 

William C. Jinrragc. 

Medal given to Charles .Sargent, b\ Ward N. Bo\lston, M.D. ; 
bronze. J^'f>^' J)i\~ecll., Ah.D. 



32 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

Case " Cj," t/ic j\/odcl and Medal Case — Continttcd. 

IvIedal issued by the International Maritime Exhibition, 1SS9; 
silver. William G. Crother. 

Badge of the Porcellian Club, Harvard College, instituted 1791 » 
belonj^ing to the Hon. George Morey, of the class of iSii ; 
silver. Mrs. J. E. Ellis. 

Badge-pin, " Champions, Boston Base Ball Club, 1S71 ; " gold. 

John P. Reed. 

Badge taken after the Great Fire from the store of Palmer, 
Batchelder, & Co., 162 Washington Street; silver. 

Fireman's hat; imitation, in silver. Willia7n C. Laivrencc. 

English Gold Watch, owned by William Perlcins (No. 144). 

Airs. Richard, Perki)is. 

Silver Watch, made in London and given to the Rev. Peter 
I'hacher, Minister of Milton, 1681-1727. Peter Tliacher. 

George Pearodv, Banker and Philanthropist, 189^-1869; 
bronze medallion bust, struck by the Trustees of the Pea- 
body Educational Fund. Samuel A. Green., M.D. 

Daniel W^ebster ; bronze medallion bust. G. II. Si>iitJi. 

Theodore Parker; mould and impression of bust, taken in 
Europe two years before his death. 

Charles B. and Benj. W. Appletott. 

Medal commemorative of the Pilgrim Jubilee, 1870, the 350th 
Anniversary of the landing at Plymouth ; gilt. 

John B. Callender. 

Silver fac-simile of the gtjld medal give<i by,il>e City to George 
William Curtis on occasion of his eulogy of Wendell Phil- 
lips, April 18, 1S84. Henry Guild. 

Medal of the celebration of the third Centennial Anniversary of 
the vSettlement of Santa ¥c, New Mexico, July, 1883. 

IMedal commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the Evac- 
uation of New York city by the British, Nov. 28, i 7S3 ; 
head of Washington on the reverse. 

Medal commemorating the Centennial Celel)ration of Washing- 
ton's Pleadquarters at Newburgh, N.Y., Oct. 13, 1883. 

Medal commemorating the Bi-Centennial of the settlement of 
Germantown, Penn., Oct. 6, 18S3. 

Medal commemorating the Centennial of the Battle of Bunker 
Hill, June 17, 1774; five medals, in white metal. 

One CENr and half-cent of Massachusetts; copper currency, 
17S8. 



THE SECOND FLOOR. 33 

Case " G\" t/ie JMoJcl and JMcdal Case — Cotitiiiucd . 

Medal commemorating the action between the " Monitor " and 
the "Merrimac." 

Half-dollar of the Sierra Company, 1791. 

Mrs. Alary Lozi'ell Putnam. 

CoLUMBLAN half-dolhir, Chicago, 1S93. J3. C. Clark. 

Medal commemorating the 400th anniversary of the disco\ery 
of America, Oct. 3i, 1S92. Nathan Applctim. 

Medal, with a representation of the Liberty Bell, with the Lord's 
Prayer on the reverse. 

Medal, Souvenir of the erection, by the city, in 18S9, of Tablets 
in memory of the soldiers killed at Bunker Hill. 

Albert A. JPolsoni. 

Medal commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Ancient 
and Honorable Artillery Company, 1SS8; bronze. 

Hetiry Guild. 



Case " H," New England Guard's Cask. 

A ^Lviiogaxv Caiunet, bearing upon either end a representation, 
carved in relief, of the shield of the New England Guards, 
with the company motto: ''Our nation's honor the bond 
of union." J. Pntnam Bradlee. 

This cabinet contains : 

A Silver Eagle bearing the engraved inscription: " Pre- 
sented by General Arnold Welles, November, 181 2." 

A Gold Medal, presented to the New England Guards by 
past members of the organization resident in Australia, in- 
scribed with the company motto. The reverse bears the 
following inscription : " Presented to the New England 
Guards by Joshua Crane, James W. Fletcher, Moses H. 
Call, Charles S. Jenney. Melbourne, Australia. Septem- 
ber, 1S54." 

A Gold Medal, presented to the New England Guards 
by past members of the organization resident in California, 
inscribed: "N. E. G. Listituted vSept. 22. 1S12." The re- 
verse bears the following inscription : " To the Guard in 
Boston from the Old Guard in California. B. B. Gore, 
A. J. Almy, N. W. Knowlton, T. H. Borden, W. E. 
Moodv, S. H. Whitmarsh, L. J. Wilder, N. H. Brown, 
N. L.^Ligols, G. W. Nichols." 



34 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

Case " //," New England Guard's Case — Continued. 

A Gold-plated Gorget, bearing the State shield of Mas- 
sachusetts, in silver, worn by the successive commanders 
of the New England Guards, as the badge of office. 

An Officer's Mess Chest, of mahogany, containing arti- 
cles of Camp Equipage, in use in 1S12. 

A Mahogany Ballot-box, silver mounted, bearing the 
initials " N. E. G.," and the engraved inscription: '' Pre- 
sented by B. F. Pickman. Esq., 1S14." 

A Knapsack, inscribed : " B. 65." 

A Canteen, inscribed : " N. E. G., 63." 

A Representation of the shield formerly borne bv the 
Guards, painted upon cloth, with tlie motto of the corps : 
" Our Nation's Honor the Bond of Union." 

The Ne%v England Guards^ Association. 

Portions of uniform and equipment formerly v\^orn by 
the New England Guards, specified as follows : 

One shako, with white pompon ; One brass breast-plate ; 
One cartridge-box ; One bavonet scabbard ; One patent 
leather clasp-l)elt; Two white coss-belts ; Two sets of 
epaulets. Joseph B . Glover. 

A Pair of Officer's epaulets, of gold and bullion fringe. 

William C. Otis. 

JosiAii Putnam Bradlee, 1S11-S7; Commander of the New 
England Guards; framed photograph. 

Miss Helen C. Bradlec. 

A Dress Sword worn by the late Capt. J. Putnam Bradlee. 

Aliss I Tel en C. Bradlee. 

A Sword, inscribed: "S. B., Jr., from W. V. H., 24th Reg. 
N. E. G." 

Records of the Guards and of t'ne Guards' Association. 

A Pewter Mug, marked " N. E. G." 

Loan : John F. B anchor. 



THE VESTIBULE. 

169 JosiAii QiJiNCV, 1772-1S64; Mayor, 1S23-29; President of 
Harvard College, 1829-45 ; plaster statuette, model of the 
statue in front (jf the City Hall, by Thomas Ball. 

JSIartin Parry Kennard. 



tup: second floor. 35 

170 La Fayette, Marquis de, 1757-1S34; stcel-platc proof en- 

graving by Leroux, from oil portrait by Ary ScheHcr, 1822 ; 
full lengtli, in civil dress. 

171 Chahles Sumner, iSii-74; U. .S. Senator, 1851-74; pho- 

tograph bv Black with fac-siinilc autograph. 

Loan : Cily of Boston. 

172 John Albiox Andrew, 1818-67; Governor, 1861-66; 

photograph. James W. Black. 

173 John Quincy Adams, 1767-1S48; President of the United 

States, 1825-29; engraving by Duraml, after portrait by 
Sully; full length, seated. James A. Dnpee. 

174 Wendell Phillips, 181 1-84; photograph. 

James W. Black. 

175 WiLLL\M Lloyd Garrison, 1804-79; photograph. 

James IV. Black. 

176 Miss Rosanna Black, daugliter of Andrew Black, after- 

ward Mrs. Joseph Blake, and later Mrs. Benjamin Whit- 
man ; dietl in 184S, aged about 76; half-length oil portrait 
of a young lady in a white satin robe, incorrectly attributed 
to Copley ; once owned by Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis, and 
formerly exhibited in the Athenjeum. 

Loan : Anihu Milller. 

176a Thomas Blanchard, inventor, born in vSutton, 1788, died 
in Boston, 1S64; oil portrait. 6\ Stillman Blanc/iard. 

177 Josiaii Quincy, ]ii.^ 1802-82; Mayor, 1845-9; ^'^ portrait 

by Page. Jos i ah P. ^umcy. 

178 Fisher Ames, 175S-1808; Member of Congress, 1788-97; 

oil portrait by Edgar Parker, after Stuart. 

Mrs. Edgar Parker. 

179 Nathaniel Pope Russell, 1779-184S; Treasurer of the 

Bunker Hill Monument Association, 1823-4S ; oil portrait 
by Stuart. Loan : Samuel H. Russell. 

180 George Robert Twelves PIewes, Member of the " Bos- 

ton Tea Party," died Nov. 5, 1S40, aged 98 years; oil por- 
trait, painted from life in 1835 by J. G. Cole ; purchased 
from Henry W. Hewes. 

181 John Park, M.D., 1775-1852; father of the Hon. John C. 

Park ; oil portrait. Loan : llie Park Family. 

182 Edward Everett, 1794-1S65 ; Member of Congress, 1825- 

35; Governor, 1S36-40; Minister to England, 1841-45; 
President of Ilarvard College, 1852-53 ; U. S. Senator, 
1853-54; full-length engraving by Wright Smith, after 
Hicks. 



36 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

183 Daniel Webster, 17S3-1S52 ; Member of Congress from 

New Hampshire and Massachusetts; Senator, 1S37-39, 
1S45-50; Secretary of State, 1840-43, 1S50-53 ; full-length 
engraving by Andrews and .Smith, after Harding. 

184 George Washington ; photogravure of Gilljcrt Stuart's 

head of Washington in the Art Museum. 

A. IV. El son d- Co. 

185 RuFUS Choate, 1799-1S59 ; heliotype, after the engrax ing in 

13rown's "Life of Choate." Ellcrton E. Pratt. 

186 Daniel Webster ; photograph of a crayon taken in the 

Capitol at Washington, 1S45, by Eastman Johnson, for the 
Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, and given by him to the Mas- 
sachusetts Historical Society, 1SS6. Robert C. Winthrop. 

187 The Same; lithograph, after Ames. J. Colevia)i. 

1S8 The Columbian Museum, kept b}' Doyle (No. i'^3), in 
Tremont Street; framed broadside advertisement of part 
of the contents, with woodcut view of the engagement 
between the "Constitution" and the " Guerriere ; " en- 
graved by Abel Bowen ; D. & A. Bowen, Printers, 12 
Court Street. 

i8g The Same; another framed l^roadside advertisement, printeil 
bv the Columbian Museum Press, " Head of the Mall." 

JcrcDiiah Colbnrn. 

190 Daniel Webster; photograph of an engraving. 

Erancis H. Manning. 

igi Daniel Webster, at Franklin, N.H. ; lithograph, by Buf- 
ford. Loan : Samuel H. Russell. 

ig2 The Same ; lithograph by Fabronius, after Ames, 1S63. 

193 A Letter of Daniel Webster to the Hon. Peter Harvey, 

dated Washington, Sept. 27, 1S50; framed. 

,/. Applcton Bailey. 

194 Ticket of admission to the Coknubian jMuseum, signed, 

"Mr. Mason;" framed. Jeremiah Colburn. 

195 Frame, containing letters or autographs of Washington, 

John Hancock, " Lord " Timotliy Dexter, Gov. Wentworth, 
and others. Loan : Alonzo R. \Ve)itivortJi. 

196 Bus'i' of" The Greelc Slave," in marble, by Powers. 

Loan : Mrs. William C. Otis. 

197 Daniel Webster ; engiaving. 

198 The Same ; lithograph b}' Pendleton of Johnston's drawing, 

after Harding's portrait, 1S31. Joseph Si/nes. 



THE SECOND FLOOR. n 

igg The Same ; lithograph, after a miniature by Harvey. 

Mrs. I^ranccs H. Weston. 

200 The Same ; tull-length engraving by Wagstali'and Anth-evvs, 

after portrait by Lawson. 

201 The Same ; engraving by Ritchie, after a daguerreotype by 

Whipple, 1848. Daniel 7\ V. Huntoon. 

202 Eulogy ON the Death of James Lawrence, Commander 

of the U. S. Frigate " Chesapeake," killed June 4, 1813, oft" 
Boston PLirbor, in the hght with the *' Shannon; " framed 
broadside, A. Bowen, engraver. j\/rs. C. G. Butts. 

203 The Same ; broadside, woodcut, printed on satin ; framed. 

Loan : John I^, BajicJior. 

204 Minot's Light-House ; drawing, framed in a window 

washed ashore by the storm which destroyed the light- 
house, April 16-17, 1^5'- Mrs. S. L. Andrczus. 

205 The Same ; plans of the new Light, with a view of the old 

house ; colored lithograph, l)y Burrill. Aldcn Frink. 

206 The Merchants' Exchange, State St., 1S42; L Rogers, 

arcliitect ; engraved by Thayer. ATortinicr C. Ferris. 

207 Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, plan of the enlarge- 

ment, 18^9. Loan : F/ie City of Boston. 

208 Proposed Building for the Horticultural Society, 1864. 

Gridley J. F. Bryant. 
2og Frame, containing views of i. The Fafade corner of Frank- 
lin and Devonshire Street ; 2. Winthrop Square and 
Devonshire Street; 3. Franklin and Devonshire Streets; 
destroyed by the Great Fire, i S72 . Gridlcy J. F. Bryant. 

210 Deed of Transfer to the Town of Boston of the Common- 

wealth's share in the Old State House, April 28, 1S03, 
signed by the Commissioners appointed l)y the General 
Court to execute the transfer. Loan : City of Boston. 

211 Beal's Photographic View of Boston, from the top of 

the Grand Junction elevator. East Boston, 1877. 

212 Boston from City Point, near Sea Street, showing the old 

wind-mill ; painted and engraved by W. J. Bennett, 1830; 
colored engraving. Saninct ]V. Clifford . 

213 Certificate of Membership of Samuel \V. Cliftbrd in 

the Lidependent Boston Fusileers ; colored engraving by 
Osborn, with picture of the company in camn, 1844. 

Samuel W. Clifford. 

214 View of Boston from the ship-house at the West end of the 

Navy Yard ; colored engraving by W. L Bennett, from his 
painting. Samuel //'. Clifford. 



38 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 



THE COUNCIL CHAMBER. 

215 The Wharves of Boston in 1S39; oil painting of the water- 

front, with a full-rigged ship in the foreground, by Robert 
vSalmon ; from the estate of Edmund Qriincy. 

Henry P. J^i/iucy^ M.D. 

216 Pastel Portrait of a young man; attributed to Copley. 

Loan : John S. DamrcU. 

217 Death of Gen. Richard Montgomery in the attack on 

Qiiebec, Dec. 31, 1775 (with key) ; engraved by Midler, 
London, 1798, after Trumbull; containing portraits of 
Gen. Montgomery, Major Jacob Cheeseman, Major Dun- 
can McPherson, and others. ]\Iiss Eliza S. ^iiiiicy. 

218 Three Flemish Tiles from a fire-place in the mansion of 

Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, on Garden-Court Street, North 
Square, taken down in 1S33 ; framed. John J. Alay. 

219 Invitation to attend the funeral, at St. Mary Woolnoth, 

London, Feb. 21, 1695, of Sir William Phipps (1651-95), 
first governor of Massachusetts under the second charter ; 
signed and sealed by " Major-General Wintrop ; " wood- 
cut fac-simile ; framed. Charles E. Clark^ AI.D. 

220 Ancient Indenture on parchment, framed, with arms of 

the City of London, issued to Richard Orchard as appren- 
tice to Richard Hill, felt-maker, 1655, with indorsement 
of Edward Rawson, vSecretary of Massachusetts Bay 
Colony, 1662. Jo^'>^ S. H. Fogg^ M.D. 

11\ Clearance Permit of the brigantine " Pitt," of Boston, is- 
sued by the Lords of the Admiralty, London, June 9, 17765 
with autograph of the Earl of Egremont and others, coun- 
tersigned '' A. Oliver, vSecretary ;" copperplate on parch- 
ment. Robert C. Mackay. 

17.1 John Nelson, i 654-1 734 ; photograph after Smibert ; framed. 
He is described in a letter of James Lloyd to Samuel 
Breck, 1S17, as a spirited and respected inhabitant of Bos- 
ton, who, in 1689, turned the guns of a battery on the gov- 
ernment fort, and demanded the surrender of .Sir Edmund 
Andros, the royal governor, who had retired to the fort for 
security. He was afterwards imprisoned during the 
French war and carried to Qiiebec, where he heard of an 
ex2:)edition fitting out against the settlements on the Penob- 
scot and Piscataqua rivers, which, at the risk of his life, he 
communicated to the government of Massachusetts. Being 
removed to France, he sent word of a second expedition 



THE Sl^XOND l<LOOR. 39 

JoJui JVcIson — Co)itinued. 

against the Colonics. He was released after the Peace of 
Ryswick on his parole to a French gentleman, who ad- 
vanced £20,000 as security for his return. Being advised 
by William III. not to return, he replied: " Please God 1 
live, Fll go ! " vvhicli he did. Temple Prince. 

223 The First Chauteh of Massachusetts, granted by Charles 

L, 1629; framed miniature heliotspe reproduction. 

Willia})i II. W J/ it more. 

224 Phielis Wheatlkv, horn in Africa about 17^3? brought to 

this country i76i.diL'd in Boston 17^54; servant of John 
VVheatlcy, of this city ; she began to write verses at an early 
age, and her poems, dedicated to the Countess of Hunting- 
ton, were published in London with her portrait in 1773, 
and were several times reprinted ; copperplate engraving 
published in that yeai" by Archibald Bell, Aldgate, London. 

James J\I. lyu^-dee. 

225 JosiAii C^uixcv, Jr., "the Patriot," 1744-75; defended in 

this room the soldiers arrested for the " Boston Massacre," 
1770; oil portrait by Stuart, from a print, 1S25. 

Loan : Estate of JosiaJi ^iiincy. 

225 Three Views of Boston, drawn in water-color in 1764, by 
Capt. Richard Byron, R.N. (1724-1811), brother of Isa- 
bella, Lady Carlisle, and of Admiral Byron, grandfather of 
the poet ; afterward rector of Houghton, Durham ; inscribed 
in the author's handwriting : i. " View of the Long Wharf 
and Part of the Harbor of Boston in New England, Amer- 
ica R. Bvron, ft. ; 2. View of the South End of Boston in 
New England America and of the Neck taken from the 
Hill N. E. of the Common R. Byron ft. ; 3. View of the 
North End of Boston in New England America and of 
Charles Towne taken from the Hill westward of the Bea- 
con R. Byron, ft." Framed together. 

"F/ie Earl of Carlisle. 

227 John Brooks, M.D., 1752-1825; commanded the minute- 

men of Reading at Lexington, April 19, 1775 ; an able 
officer in the Revolution ; Governor, 1816-23 ' engraving 
after Stuart, 1S20. 

228 The Same ; a photograph after Stuart's portrait ; reduced. 

229 The Same ; copperplate engraving by Chorley, after Froth- 

ingham's portrait, in possession of Dudley Hall, Esq. 

230 Samuee Griswold Goodrich ("Peter Parley"), 1793- 

1S60; author or editor of 170 volumes, many of them for 
the young; engraved by Bannister from a daguerreotype. 

I/e/irv VV. BricJier. 



40 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

231 The Bas-rei.iefs on the Pil<^rim Moininieiit at Plymouth, 
designed by Ilammatt Billings ; electrotyped copies in min- 
iature ; framed. Charles Chaplin. 

1^1 Glass Medallions from two quart bottles, marked " C. Ap- 
thorp, 1 75 1," and (Sir) " Robert Temple, 1767," found at 
Winter Hill, vSomerville ; set in plush ; framed. 

Job A. Tn/'7ier. 

233 Paul Revere, 1735-1818; engraving by Schofi', after 

Stuart, with fac-simile autograph. 

234 Isaac Hull, i 775-1843 ; Lieutenant U. S. Navy, 179S ; Cap- 

tain, 1806; distinguished himself in the Expedition against 
Algiers ; in command of the " Constitution ; " captured the 
" Guerriere," Aug. 19, 1S12; oil portrait by Stuart, 1813, 
in uniform. Loan : Parker C. Chandler. 

235 Boston Common in 1S30, with a view of the State House; 

water-color by George Har\ey, an Englisli artist ; gift of 
his namesake. George Harvey Chickering. 

236 Lafayette, described in French as " Deputy to the National 

Assembly, 17S9; commander of the National Guard of 
Paris, 15 July ; " engraving by Fiesinger, after Guenin : 
published in Paris in 1830. Abbott Laivreuce. 

237 WiLLLVM Austin, 177S-1841 ; author of " Peter Rugg, the 

Missing Man ; " Ihst commissioned Chaplain of the U. S. 
Nav}', 1799; piiotograph of a portrait by Pratt. 

Jonathan Froicli. 

238 Arthur Williams Austin, 1S07-S4, son of the above; 

Collector of the Port, 1857-60; engraving by Buttre for 
the U. S. Democratic Review, from a iDhotograph, with fac- 
simile autograph. Jonathan French. 

239 Autograph letter of the Rev. Cotton Mather to Mr. Ellis 

Kallender, Elder of a Church of Christ, Boston, Jan. i, 
1 714 ; framed. 

240 Receipted itemized bill for repairs made on the Town-house 

(Old State House), 1713, by John Brand; framed. 

241 Autograph of Robert Keavne, who came over in 1635. 

formed and was first Captain of the Artillery Company, 
163S, died in 1656, aged 61 years, leaving £300 to build 
the first Town-house, on this spot ; framed. 

John S. H. Fogg^ AI.D. 

16^1 Letter of Major Benjamin Church (1639-171S), the cele- 
brated Indian fighter, to Capt. Thomas Leonard, of Taun- 
ton, Aug. II, 1697; framed. Charles E. Clark., M.D. 



THE SFXOND FLOOR. 41 

243 Samuel Applkton, Merchant, 1766-1S53; fiill-lcnuth sil- 

houette pasted on to a Htliograph view of Tremont Street, 
taken about 1S35. Nat/nm Applcton. 

244 The Same; ei\s^ravin<^ by ScholV, after Ilealy. with fac- 

simile autograph. Nathan Applcton. 

245 Boston Common about 1850; oil sketch by Thomas G. Ap- 

plcton (No. 249). Nathan Applcton. 

246 Nathan Appi.eton, 1779-1S61 : Merchant, and writer on 

political economy ; one of the Founders of Lowell ; Mem- 
ber of Congress, iS3i-33,an(l 1S43 ; oil portrait l)y Healy. 

Loan : Nathan Applcton. 

247 The Same; engraving by SchoiV, after TIealy's |:K)rtrait, 

with f;!c-simile autograph. Nathan. Applcton. 

248 National Republican Rinlroad Ticket; for member of 

Congress, Nathan Appleton, Esq., 1828-30. 

William H. Whit more. 

249 Thomas Gold Appleiox, 1S12-S4; son of No. 246; joastel 

by Alexander, 1S5 2. Loan: N'athan Applcton. 

250 The Same ; engraving by the Metropolitan Publishing and 

Engraving Co., New York; with fac-simile autograph. 

Agatha n Applcton 

251 Letter of Gawen Brown to tiic Old South Church in 176S, 

concerning the clock on the meeting-house made by him. 

Loan : The Old South Church. 

252 Nathaniel Gorham, 1738-96; Member of the Old Con- 

gress, 1792-93, 1785-87^ and President, 17S6; member of 
the Constitutional Convention, 1787 ; copperplate engrav- 
ing by Rosenthal. Gcoro'c Gorham. 

253 Thomas Sherwin, i 799-1869 ; Llead Master of tlic English 

High School, 1838-69 ; engraving by Wright Smith, from 
a daguerreotype; witli fac-simile autograph. 

Rev. E. li. Butler. 

253a William FL Wiutmoke, Citv Registrar; photogravure 
portrait by C. W. Elson & Co." JF. //. Whit more. 

254 Col. James Otis, of Parnstable, 1702-78: father of James 

Otis. Jr. (No. 293), and of Samuel Allevne Otis (No. 
283) ; husband of Marv Allevne Otis (No. 261) ; Speaker 
of the Provincial Congress, 1760; C. J. of Court of Com- 
mon Pleas, 1764; President of H. M.'s Council, 1771 and 
1772; oil portrait by Copley; originally full length, life- 
size, seated, " "Loan: Harrison Gray Oti . 

255 Prophetic Chronology of the reign of (jeorge TIL ; en- 

graved by Hewitt in London, 1816; framed. 

Gcoige \V. Maunder. 



42 EOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

256 The Princess Anna Sophia, g^rancldaughter of James I., 

1630-1714; Electress of IIano\cr, mother of George I., of 
England ; mezzotint engraving by Simon of a portrait 
painted in Hanovxn-. Loan : William H. Whitmorc. 

257 Harrison Gray Otis {v. No. 78) ; marble bust by Cleven- 

ger. Loan : Harrison Gray Otis. 

258 George III., 173S-1S20 ; transparent colored mezzotint en- 

graving by Purcell, after Frye ; printed by John Bowles, 
Cornhill, London ; from the Read sale, Cambridge. 

259 Charlotte, Princess of Mecklenburg-Strclitz, married 

George IIL, 1761 ; similar engraving, after Frye; fiom the 
Read sale. 

260 William Altgustus, Duke of Cimiberland, third son of 

George II., 1729-65 ; defeated by the French at Fontenoy, 
174s ; defeated the Pretender at Culloden, 1746 ; mezzotint 
engraving, after Faber's portrait from life. 

261 Mary Alleyne Otis, great-granddaughter of Edward 

Doten, of the " Mayflower ; " born at Plymouth, 1703 ; wife 
of No. 354; died about 1770; oil portrait bv Copley, life 
size, seated, originally full length. 

Loan : Harrison Gray Otis. 

262 John Gilbert, Comedian, 1S10-S9; made his first appear- 

ance at the Tremont Theatre, Nov. 28, 182S ; his last, at 
the Park Theatre, Dec. 15, 188S; engraving by Buttre, 
after vSarony's photograph, with fac-simile autograph. 

Joint Gilbert. 

263 Benjamin Franklin ; copperplate engraving after Cochin, 

by Chodowiccki, a Russian painter and engraver. 

Williaui C. Bjtrrage. 

264 The Rt. Hon. Isaac Barre, i 736-1 802 ; x^djutant-General 

of the Army before Qiiebec ; Member of Parliament, and 
Friend of America, for whom the Town of Barre was 
named; engraving by Hall, after Stuart, 1785. 

,/. S. Wright cC- Co. 

265 Andrew Oliver, 1706-74 ; one of H.M.'s Council, 1746-65 ; 

Secretary of the Province, 1756-70; Lieut. -Governor, 
1771 ; heliotype reproduction of an oil portrait by Emmons, 
1 7 28. J^itc/i E. Oliver, M.D. 

266 Rev. Samuel Cooper, D.D., 1735-83; Pastor of Brattle 

Sc^uare Church, 1746-S3 ; an eminent Patriot and Author; 
mezzotint engraving by Green, 1754, from a portrait 
owned by Gov. Hancock, with motto: '•'•Citjits etiam a 
lingua melle dulcior Jliicbat oratio ;" from the J. Chalo- 
ner Smith sale, London, 1887. 



THE SI^XOND FLOOR. 43 

267 John Adams; copy by Edgar Parker of Stuart's [portrait. 

Mrs. HJgar Parker. 

258 Jonathan Bklchkk, 1682-1757; jNIemher of the Council 
and Agent of Mass. to England ; Governor of Mass. and 
N. H., 1730-41 ; of New Jersey, 1747; mezzotint engrav- 
ing by Faber, after Phillips; from the Smith sale. 

269 Gen. Joski'H Wahukn, 1741-75; lithograph by Pendleton, 

after Alexander. 

270 Home of Gen. Warren in Hanover Street, from 1772 to 1775 ; 

on the site of the American House; removed 1850; en- 
graving. Henry />. Rice. 

271 Samuel Sewall, born in England, 1652, died in Boston, 

1730; Member of the Council; Judge, 1692-1711; Chief 
Justice to 172S; engraving from the '•'• Portfolio," after an 
original portrait, with fac-simile autograph. 

272 Edward Winslow, 159S-1655 ; Governor of Plymouth 

Colony, 1633, '36, '44; appointed 1)y Cromwell one of 
three commissioners to superintend an expedition against 
the Spaniards in the West Indies, he died at sea in that 
service ; engraving by House, with fac-simile autograph, 
1639, and coat of arms ; in antique frame. JoJiii Gilbert. 

273 John Paul Jones, born in Scotland, 1747, died in Paris, 

1792; Lieutenant in U. S. Nav}-, i775' commanded the 
"■ Bon Homme Richard," i779' ''""^^ captured the 
" Scrapis ; " entered the Russian service, i7^*^7* Drawn 
from life by Moreau in Paris, and engraved by him, 1781 ; 
with motto from Moliere. 

274 Samuel x'\dams, 1722-1S03; Delegate to the Continental 

Congress and to the C^onstitutional Convention ; Lieut. - 
Governor, 1789-94; Governor, 1794-97; copperplate en- 
graving by Norman, with inscription, " First Delegate to 
Congress for Mass." 

275 Elizabeth Gray Otls, daughter of Harrison Gray (No. 

292) ; born about 1745 ; wife of Samuel Alleyne Otis 
(No. 383) ; mother of Harrison Gray Otis (No. 78) ; died 
about 1785; oil portrait by Copley, originally full length, 
as a shepherdess with a crook, holding a lamb by a blue 
ribbon. Loan : Harrison Gray Otis. 

276 William Shirley, 1693-1711 ; Governor, 1741-49, i753~ 

56; plaimed the Expedition against Cape Breton, i745' 
mezzotint engraving by McArdell, after Hudson ; from the 
Smith sale. 



44 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

277 Caleb Strong, 1745-1S16; U. S. Senator, 17S9-97; Gov- 

ernor, 1S00-7 unci 181 2-16; copperplate engraving- by I. 
R. Smith, after Doyle, 1813, with inscription : " Elected 
in 1S13 Governor of Mass., for the ninth time, Ijy the free 
suffrages of his fellow-citizens." Charles H. Wise. 

278 Gilbert Stuart, Painter, 1754-1828; copperplate proof 

engraving by Edwin, after Nagle's portrait ; ivf. ^2. 

C. II. Hart. 

279 John Singleton Copley, R.A., 1737-181^; steel engrav- 

ing by Edwards, 1S32, after Stuart. 

Loan : Samuel H. Hzissell. 

280 Prince de Joinville ; invitation to a ball given in his honor 

while in Boston, Nov., 1841 ; engraved card by Hopwood, 
with portrait of King Louis Philippe, father of the Prince. 

John Lathrop. 

281 vSiR Charles Henry Frankland, 1716-68; Collector of 

Boston, 1741-57; Consul-General at Lisbon, 1757-63; 
etching by Miss Annie S. Pratt, from a photograph ob- 
tained at Thirkelby Hall, Yorkshire, the residence of the 
family, by the Rev. Elias Nason. Johji I^. Pratt, M.D. 

282 Major Thomas Melville, 1751-1832; member of the 

"• Boston Tea Party ;" fireman, 1 779-1825 ; Naval Officer, 
1786-89, 1811-29 ; engraving electrotvped by Hopkins. 

O. A. Crane. 

283 Samuel Alleyne Otis, 1 740-1814, son of James Otis (No. 

254) ; Member of Congress, 178S; first Secretary of the 
U. vS. Senate ; father of Harrison Gray Otis (No. 78) ; oil 
portrait by Stuart, iSoo. Loan : Harrison Gray Otis. 

284 Thomas PowNALL, 1722-1805; Governor, 1757-60 ; of vSouth 

Carolina, 1760-61 ; M.P., 1768-80; mezzotint engraving 
by Earlom, after Cotes; from the Smith sale. 

285 William Cusiiing, 1732-1810; Judge of the Superior Court, 

1772; Chief Justice, 1777; Judge of the Supreme Court, 
1782, and Chief Justice ; Associate Justice U. S. Supreme 
Court, 17S9; nominated by Washington Chief Justice, but 
declined ; photograph of a portrait. 

Loan : Mrs. JSIary S. Israel. 

286 Thomas Hollis, i 659-1 731 ; a Merchant of London ; a liberal 

benefactor of Harvard College ; copperplate engraving ; 
bust with wreath and seated figure of Minerva. 

Hajnilton A. Hill. 

287 Act of the Colonial Legislature, April 25, 1751, apportion- 

ing the cost of rebuilding the Town-House (Old State 
House), after the fire of 1747, ^3,705, 11 s. 4d., to the 
Town of Boston and the other towns of Suffolk County ; 
framed broadside. Heirs of D. T. V. Huntoon. 



THE SECOND FLOOR. 45 

288 Federal Street Thkatke ; framed liill for Nov. 13 (about 

1795); plays, " llic Stranger" and a farce, "Animal 
Magnetism ; " the following was printed at the l)f)ttom : 
" N.l'. On no account a segar to be smoked in the theatre. 
It is hoped that no gentleman will take ollence at being 
refused admittance behind the scenes." 

289 The Same; bill for Oct. 12, 1796, framed; plays, "Venice 

Preserved" and "Oscar and Malvina." "The theatre 
0})ens at five, performance at 6." John F. Banchor. 

290-291 Thomas Hutchinson, 1711-1780, Governor of Massa- 
chusetts ; Mrs. Hutchinson, nee Sanford ; oil portraits. 

Loan : J. L. Graves. 

292 Harrison Gray, 1710-94; First Treasurer and Receiver- 

General of Massachusetts Bav Colony ; banished during the 
Revolution ; oil portrait by Copley ; half length. 

Loan: Harrison Gray Oil's. 

293 James Otis, Jr., "the Patriot," 1724-S3, Son of No. 2c;4; 

argued in this room against writs of assistance, 1761 ; 
delegate to the Colonial Congress, 1765; copy of Black- 
burn's original oil portrait in possession of jMrs. Rogers, of 
Boston. Loan : Harr/soii Gray Otis. 

294 Overhead View^ of Boston ; photograph from the studio 

window of N. L. Stebbins, Bovlston Street, near Tre- 
mont. JV. L. Sfebbins. 

295 Mercury, a carved and gilded figure with outspread wings, 

alighting on the earth ; said to have stood before the Post 
Otlice in 17^0; for lifty years in front of the store of C. C. 
Hutchinson, formerly that of F. VV. Lincoln, Jr., 126 
Commercial Street ; said to be the oldest emblematical sign 
in Boston. C. C. Hiitcltinson. 

296-303 Arms of Governors William Burnet, 172S; Col. Samuel 
Shute, 1716; Joseph Dudley, 1702; Earl of Bellomont, 
1699; .Sir Ednumd Andros, 16S6 ; Jonathan Belcher, 
1730; W^illiam Shirley, 1717; Tliomas Pownall, 17^7; 
painted on canvas by Savory. 

lite Wardens and \'estry of King's Chapel. 

304 The Hall Clock of Mather Byles, First Pastor <jf the Hollis 

Street Church, made by his son-in-law, Gawen Brown, in 
King, now State Street, 1750; loaned by 'W O. H. P. 
Burnham in 1SS3 : purchased from his estate in 1892. 

305 Lantern hung on the Liberty Tree at the illumination in 

honor of the repeal of the Stamp Act, 1766 ; over door. 

Heirs of J. H. Hnunenian. 



46 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

306 Fireman's Hat, "Reliance," 17S6; over door. 

307 Table of the Executive Council before the Revolution, sitting 

in the Old State House ; removed to the State House, and 
used by the Council from the beginning of this century, as 
appears by a certificate of Gov. B. F. Butler, Dec. 8, 1S83. 

Loan : City of Boston. 

308 Chair of wood of the ship " Resolute," sent by the British 

Government in 1S52 in search of Sir John Franklin; 
abandoned in the ice and brought to New London, Conn., 
by an American whaler; refitted and presented to H. M. 
Qiieen Victoria, who received it at Osborne with imposing 
ceremony ; made from a wooden timber, when broken up, 
and presented to Mavor Courtenay, of Charleston, S.C. , 
and by him to the City of Boston, on the 3^oth anniversary 
celebration in 18S0. Loan: C it v of Boston. 



HENRY HASTINGS ROOM. 

A collection of models and paintings of ships owned and managed by the tlrm 
of Henry Hastings & Co., from the year 1847 to 1887; given to the Society by 
Col. Henry Hastings. The list of articles is as follows; the models are board 
models, showing the lines of the vessels in half sections. 

309 Barql'e "Kate Hastings." Built in Newburyport, iS47,by 

W. &B. W. Picket. First voyage, Capt. James G. Allen, 
sailed from Boston, Oct. 19, 1S47, ''^"*-' '^''lived at Batavia. 
Jan. 26, 1S4S — 99 days. 

310 Ship " Midnight." Built at Portsmouth, N.H., by Messrs. 

Fernald & Pettigrevv. Launched May iS, 1S54. Length 
170 ft. II in. ; breadth, 34 ft. 11 in. ; depth, 21 ft. ; tons, 
962II. First voyage, Capt. James B. Hatch, sailed from 
Boston, June 30, to San Francisco, where she arrived Oct. 
25, 1854 — 116 days. Abandoned Jan. 7, 1S78, at Am- 
bogna, Banda .Sea, after a heavy gale. 

311 Ship "■ Noonday." Built l)y Messrs. Fernald & Pettigrew, 

at Portsmouth, N.H. Launched Aug. 3=^, 1S55. Length, 
1S2 ft. ; breadtli, 97 ft. 5 in. ; depth, 23 ft. ; tons, 1,177. 
First voyage, Capt. W. B. Gerry, sailed from Boston, Oct. 
18, 1855, for San Francisco, where she arrived March i, 
1S56 — 135 days. The "Noonday" struck a sunken rock 
oti'the Farallones, entrance to .San Francisco, Jan. 3, 1863, 
just at noontime, while the captain was taking the sun. 
She filled and sank with all sails set. The rock was sub- 
sequently named "Noonday rock." 



THE SECOND FLOOR. 47 

312 Siiii' '• Ch;ii<;'er " (lirst). l>uilt at Portsinoutli, X.II., bv 

E. G. Pierce, and launclied Octol)cr, 18^6. Length, 19^ 
ft.; bieailth, 38 ft,; depth, 23.^ ft.; tons, 1,307. First 
vovage, Capt. Lutlicr Ilurd, sailed from Boston, Jan. 4, 
18^7, for vSan Francisco. .She made the quickest jjassat^e 
(80 days) from Calcutta to Boston. The " Charger " 
struck a coral reef near the island of Macatare, Dec. 14, 
1873, and was abandoned. 

313 Ship " Harry Hastings." Built by E. G. Fierce in Ports- 

mouth, and launched Nov. 24, 1858. Tons, 863. First 
vovage. Capt. G. W. Tucker, sailed from Boston, Dec. 
15, 1858, for San Francisco, and arrived there May 3. 
1859 — ^3^ days. On her third voyage the " Harrv 
Hastings" was lost, and none of her crew were ever 
heard from. 

314 Ship " Cutwater." Built at Medford by James O. Curtis, 

and launched ]May 17, 1861. Length, 173 ft.; breadth, 
38 ft. 8 in. ; depth, 33 ft. ; tons, 986. First voyage, Capt. 
\V. \". Potter, sailed from Boston for San Francisco, 
Jan. 17, 1S62. Tliis ship was sold at Hamburg in 1882, 
and her name was changed to the " Port Royal," of 
Bremen. 

315 Ship "Invincible," rigged model (loaned). Purchased in 

New York, 1863. First voyage, Capt. George K. Kellum, 
sailed from New York, May 3, 1863, and arrived at San 
Francisco September, 1863 — 135 days. Burned in Phila- 
delphia some years later. 

316 Barque "Nonantuni" (oil painting). Built l)y Hartley 

Lord & Co., Kennebuidv, Me., in December, 1861. 
Purchased November, 1863. Tons, 998. First voyage, 
Capt. Seth Kingman, sailed from New York, Dec. 29, 
1S63, for San Francisco ; passage, 154 days. 

317 Ship " Daring." Built at Newburyport by Jackman, for 

Messrs. Bush & Comstock. and purchased by Henry Hast- 
ings, Feb. 2, 1863. Tons, 1,09V First vo\age, Capt. 
W. \V. Henrv, from New York, April 9, 1863. tor San 
Francisco ; passage, 129 da\s. The '• Daring" encountered 
a gale from Baker's Island to Liverpool, and was totally 
dismasted ; bore away for Valparaiso and arrived there 
under jury-mast July 28, 186^ 99 days from Baker's Island, 
and 63 days from the time of the accident. She was sold 
in Valparaiso. 

318 Brk; " Madawaska." Built in Medford by Messrs. Hay- 

den & Cudworth. Launclied May 12, 1866. Tons, 511. 
Lost at Avola, Sicily, 1875. 



48 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

319 Brig "Nellie Hastings." Built at Medford by James O. 

Curtis. Launched March 31, 1S66. Tons, 467. First 
vova<2;e, Capt. Cyrus Hall, from Boston, Oct. 30, 1S66, for 
Liverpool ; passage, 3i days. Abandoned, sinking, after a 
typhoon, March 13, 1S75, in Ion. 14, lat. 49.38 N., and 
the crew was taken olT by the l:)arque " Victoria," and 
landed in Liverpool. 

320 Barque "• John Worster." Built by James O. Curtis in Med- 

ford. Launched May 11, 1S67. Tons, 611. First voy- 
age, in ballast, for Philadelphia, and loaded there for San 
Francisco ; Capt. G. B. Knowles. 

321 Ship " Springfield." Built by James O. Curtis in Medford. 

Launched Nov. 19, 1S6S. Lengtli, 170 ft. ; breadth, 36 ft. ; 
depth, 23.5 ft.; tons, 1,043. First voyage, Capt. Jas. S. 
Dwight, from Boston, Dec. 28, 1868, for Bombay; pas- 
sage, 133 days. Sold in flamburg., 1880, and sailed under 
the German flag; renamed " Christina." 

322 Ship ''Cashmere." Built by James O. Curtis in Medford. 

Launclied May 33, 18S9. Length, 166 ft. ; breadth, 32^^ 
ft. ; depth, 216 ft. ; tons, 937. First voyaye, Capt. S. K. 
Kingman, from Boston, July 3, 1869, for Batavia ; pas- 
sage, TOO days. Changed into a barque in 1S81. The 
barque " Cashmere " encountered a typhoon in Van Die- 
men's Straits, Sept. 12, 1885; all the masts were cut 
away, and Capt. Alex. Nicols and first and second mates 
washed overboard ; with only one boat left, part of the 
crew started for land. The remainder of the crew stayed 
by the ship for nine days, when they managed to make 
a raft and left the vessel. They reached shore, and 
after many days of travel arrived at Nagasaki, Japan. 
The cargo being oil, the vessel did not sink, but was never 
found. 

323 Ship " Pilgrim." Built by J. T. Foster, of Medford, the last 

vessel built there. Launched Dec. 3, 1873. Length, 173 
ft. ; breadth, 35 ft. : depth. 20 ft. ; tons, 957. First voy- 
age, from Boston, Capt. Fowle, Feb. 14, 1S74, for Hong 
Kong ; passage, i3i days. Changed to a barque in 1880. 

324 Ship "North i\merican." Built by Messrs. Curtis & Smith 

in East Boston. Launched Jan. 3, 1873. Length, 319.65 
ft.; breadth, 41 ft.; depth, 24.05 ft.; tons, 1,584. First 
vovage, Capt. G. W. Tucker, New York, May 4, 1873, 
for Melbourne ; passage, 73 da3's. This ship made several 
remarkable short passages ; for instance, New York to 
Melbourne, 73 days, 14,113 miles, 196 miles per day; 
Melbourne to San Francisco, 51 days, 10,500 miles, 204 
miles per day ; San Francisco to Liverpool, 93 days, 



THE SbXOND FLOOR. 49 

Ship '"''North American'''' — Continued. 

16,919 miles, 1S2 miles j)cr clay, or a grand total of 216 
(lays, 41,539 miles, 193 miles average per day, or S miles 
per hour, for 316 consecutive sailing days. She was lost 
in a typhoon on her way from Japan to New ^'ork, July 
23, 1893. 

325 Ship "Charger" (second). Built by Smith & Townsend in 

East Boston. Launched April iS, 1S74. Length, 205 ft. ; 
breadth, 40 ft. ; depth, 24 ft. ; tons, 1,444. First voyage, 
Capt. G. B. Knowles, New York, June 9, 1874, to San 
Francisco; passage, 1 28 days. 

326 Charts showing the passage of the ship " South American." 

Built by Smith & Townsend in East Boston. Launched 
Sept. 3, 1876. Length, 245 ft. ; breadth, 41 ft. 10 in. ; 
depth, 25 ft. 6 in. ; tons, 1,762. First voyage, Capt. G. 
B. Knowles, New York, Dec. 3, 1S76, for San Francisco ; 
passage, 109 days. The "South American " was at her 
time the fastest sailing-vessel afloat. She made a voyage 
from San Francisco to Liverpool, thence to CardilF, Eng., 
thence to Hong Kong and back to San Francisco, in 10 
months and 17 days, including discharging and loading 
time. This is the quickest sailing time on record around 
the world. She also made three consecutive passages from 
San Francisco to Liverpool in 100 davs each ; once to 
Cardifl'in 89 days ; thence Hong Kong to New York in 88 
days. She was lost Sept. 15, 1S89, in Struy's Bay, Cape 
L'Agulhas, southern end of Africa. The charts also show 
the quick passages of the " Charger " and •' North Amer- 
ican." 

327 Framed oil painting of the "• Kate Hastings " (No. 309). 

328 Framed oil painting of the " Nonantum " (No. 316). 

329 Full-rigged model of the " Caslimerc" (No. 322) ; loaned. 

330 Framed oil painting of the steamship "•Mississippi" (for- 

merly " Memphis "), 1,321 tons, built at Dumbarton, Scot- 
land, in 1863. She was used as a blockade runner during 
the war, and was captured by the U. S. Government ; was 
purchased by William F. Weld & Co., and rini for some 
years by them on tlieir New Orleans line ; was sold to the 
New York and Azorean S. S. Co., managed by Henry 
Hastings & Co., and run to the Azores; inially sold to the 
Oregon Improvement Co., of Portland, Oregon. 

331 Framed rigged model of the " Cutwater" (No. 314)- 

332 Model of the "Kate Hastings" (No. 309); rigged as a 

ship. 



50 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

333-334 Two boarding pikes and a cutlass, used on board ship 
as a defence against pirates. 

335 C)ii. painting of the barque "Kate Hastings" (No. 309); 

framed. 

336 Framp:d photograph of the ship "North American" (No. 

337 FRAftrED photograph of the ship " Daring," dismasted olT 

Baker's Ishind, May 26, 1865 (No. 317). 

338 Photograph of the ship "■ New Era " on the stocks ; 

framed. 

339 Framed photograph of tlic exhibit (this collection) of Henry 

Hastings & Co. at the Fair of the Mass. Charitable Me- 
chanic Association in 1SS7, which received a gold medal. 

340 Framed photograph of the same exhibit at the Maritime 

Exhibition in Mechanics Building in 1S90, which took the 
first award. 

341 Framed cravon portrait of Henry Hastings; born Sept. 2. 

1S18; died Aug. 9, 1S87. 

342 Framed oil painting of the private signal of the firm of 

" Henry Hastings & Company." 

343 Sign of Henry Hastings at 126 State Street; fifty years old. 

344 Half shell of the Tridachna, a monster conch from Singa- 

pore. 

345 Framed chart of the private signals of the merchants of 

Boston. 

346 "Off the Cape;" an old colored lithograph of a ship oil' 

Cape Horn. 



CUSTODIANS' ROOM. 

347 Bueeet (framed) shot into a room in the headquarters of 

Gen. Lincoln, at the Siege of Charlcstown, June 17^ 1775' 
" when he and I were sitting in the room ; " signed, John 
Barker, in pencil, 1804. Loan: Samuel 7\ Crosby. 

348 The First Monument on Bunker Hill, erected Nov., 

1794, by King vSolomon Lodge, Charlestovvn ; printed on 
satin ; framed. George JF. l-^orristall. 

349 Rev. Charles Cleveland, City Missionary, in his 91st 

year; engraving by Wright Smith, from a photograph b\ 
Black, with fac-simile autograph. John P. Reed . 



THE SECOND ELOOR. 51 

350 Moses Grant, 17S5-1S61, Merchant and Philanthropist; 

photograph of an original portrait. Stephen G. Deblois. 

351 Thk Back Bay and Charles Street, and the Common, from 

a sketch taken in 1S23 from the balcony of 61 Beacon 
Street, "by M. J. D." (Mary Jane Derby, afterward Mrs. 
Ephraim Peabody) ; heliotype reproduction. 

Nathan Applet 077. 

352 Christ Church, vSalem Street, bearing upon its tower the 

memorial tablet erected by the City of Boston, Oct. 17, 
187S, with an inscription written by W. W. Wheildon. at 
the request of the city authorities : " The Signal lanterns 
of Paul Revere, displayed in the steeple of this Church, 
April iS, 1775, warned the country of the march of the 
British troops to Lexington and Concord ; " heliotype. 

William W. Wheildon. 

353 Rev. William Mattocks Rogers {v. No. 118); lithograph 

by Sharp, after a miniature by ,S. L. Gerry, with fac-sim- 
ile autograph. John P. Reed. 

354 Rev. John Codman, D.D., 17S3-1847; Minister of the 

Second Church, Dorchester, from 1808; photograph after 
Copley at the age of 36. Loan : William C. Cod?na}i. 

355 Henry Pelham, half-brother of J. S. Copley ; photograph 

after Copley's portrait, known as " the Boy with a Squir- 
rel," the exhibition of which in London led to Copley's re- 
moval to that city. Hony P. Curtis. 

356 "A View of Part of the Town of Boston in New England, 

and British Ships of War landing their Troops, 176S;" 
hand-colored copperplate print, engraved by Paul Revere. 
Loan : Samuel A. Green^ M.D. 

357 Rev. John Moorhead, " Pastor of the Church of Presbyte- 

rian Strangers in Boston," formed by an Irish Colony in 
1737 ; engraving by Pelham, after his portrait, 1751, with a 
Latin motto. 

358 Rev. William Welsteed, Pastor of the Second Church, 

1728-53 ; mezzotint, after the only known engraving by J. 
S. Copley, executed in 1753, at the age of 16. 

William Jl. Whitmore. 

359 Rev. Samuel Willard, 1640-1707; Pastor of the Old 

South, 1678-1707; engraving by Van der Gucht, with a 
Latin motto. 

360 Boston and Bunker Hill, from Chelsea ; engraved for the 

N. E. Gazetteer. 



52 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

361 Charles Pelham, half-brother of Copley ; engraved from 

the portrait which Copley painted of him, the earliest one 
known by the artist, he being at that time not far from 
fourteen years of age ; the original in possession of 
Charles Pelham Curtis. Henry P. Curtis. 

362 John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst ; son of the 

Painter, born in Boston, 1772; taken to England, 1775; 
Lord High Chancellor, 1827-30, 1S34, 1S41-6 ; died 1863; 
engraving" from a portrait in robes of office. 

Jeremiah Colburn. 

363 House of John Adams, with a view of Dorchester Heights 

and the Town of Boston, and in the middle distance Arrow 
Head Hill, and the planting-ground of the Sachem, marked 
by the house of Josiah Qiiincy, erected upon it in 1770 ! ^ 
sketch in India ink from President's Hill, by Eliza vSusan 
Oiiincy, in 1823. Miss Eliza S. J^uincy- 

364 Paul Reveke's House, 19 North Square, built in 1676; 

water-color by Tolman. 

365 Battle of Bunker Hill (with key) ; engraving by Miiller, 

after Trumbull, with portraits. Aliss Eliza S. ^uincy. 

366 The Boston Massacre ; engraved by Paul Revere ; given 

in 182^ to Josiah Qiiincy by his aunt, Mrs. Storer, sister 
of Josiah Qiiincy, Jr. (No. 225). JSIiss Eliza S. Qiiincy. 

367 The Boston Type Foundry in 1S23, near Christ Church, 

Salem Street ; woodcut. John M. Eaton. 

368 "Bold Americans;" a Revolutionary ballad, addressed to 

*■• Bold Young Bostonians," and proposing a liealth to 
George Washington ; framed broadside. 

Hafnilton A. Hill. 

369 C^uincy Market ; lithograph liy Mooic. 

370 Re\'. John Wilson, isSS-1667; born in England, came to 

New England with Winthrop ; fust Pastor of the First 
Church in Boston, 1632 ; photo-lithograph after an oil 
painting owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 
with fac-simile autograph. Arthur B. Ellis. 

371 Faneuil Hall in 1824; engraving by Abel Bowen. 

372 Rev. John Cotton, 1585-1652; Vicar of St. Botolph, 

Boston, England; came to America, 1633; minister of 
the First Church, 1633-1652 ; woodcut, with fac-simile 
autograph. Arthur B. Ellis. 

373 Robert Charles Winthrop, 1809-1894; Member of Con- 

gress, 1840-42 and 1S43-50; Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, 1S47-48 ; U. S. Senator, 1850-51 ; photo- 
graph from an oil painting in the Capitol at Washington. 

William S. Apple ton. 



THE SECOND FLOOR. 53 

374 Residknc)-: of Jkkkki':y Richakdsox, corner of Ili^^h and 

Pearl Streets, 1794; lithoj^a'aph by Butlord. 

Frederick IT. G. May. 

375 Reprksentation of Indians scalping American soldiers, 

inscribed : " A scene on the frontiers as practiced by the 
humane British and their worthy allies." At the ri<;ht an 
English officer in full uniform. The Indian hands him a 
scalp with his left iiand ; in his right is a scalping-knife 
marked G. R., and hanging from his musket a placard 
marked, " Reward for 16 scalps." The (officer savs, 
'' Bring me the scalps, and the King our master will re- 
ward you." Colored copperplate engraving. 

li. iV. Giiiiiiison. 

376 Rev. Cotton Mather {v. No. 82) ; a modern impression 

of the first mezzotint engraving executed in America, by 
P. Pelham, wdio painted the portrait from life; with a 
Latin inscription. Dcuisoii R. Slade. 

377 Mos-Wachusett, or Arrow Head IL'll, in Qiiincy ; photo- 

graph of an India-ink sketch, by Miss Eliza S. (^lincy, in 
1S33. J\llss Eliza S. ^uincy. 

378 Certificate of service in the War of the Rebellion ; steel 

engraving, issued to Corporal William Roland. Co. D, 
First Reg. Mass. Vols. ; signed by William Claflin, Gov- 
ernor, April 19, 1870; framed. 

Loan: Williajn C. Lawrence. 

379 The Gardner Mansion on Summer vStreet, on the site (jf 

the store of C. F. Hove}' & Co. ; framed photograph. 

JMoses H. Barnard. 

380 The Rf:vere House, Bowdoin Square ; architect's drawing 

in India ink. Curtis Guild. 

381 Boston Common ; steel-plate print by Osborn. 

JSIrs. George W. Majinder. 

382 Edward Bromfield, born 1723, in the first house erected in 

Beacon Street; died 1745. He constructed the first organ 
and the first microscope made in America ; photograph 
representing him pointing to his microscope, after oil por- 
trait attributed to Smibert. JMiss Eliza S. ^tiincy. 

383 The United States Branch Bank, State Street, 1791-1812 ; 

then the State Bank, 1812-1836; pen-and-ink sketch. 

John T. Prince. 

384 Nathaniel Hurd. ^730-1777 ; an earlv engra\er of Boston, 

probably the first engraver on copper in America ; litho- 
graph by Pendleton for the "New England Magazine." 

385 East View of Hollis Street Church ; steel engraving from 

the " Mass. Magazine," 1793. 



54 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

386 The New England Guards, colored lithograph of an of- 

ficer, by Duval, after Hubbard ; dedicated to George T. 
Bigelow, Captain. Miss Helen C. Bradlee. 

387 Bunker Hill, 1630; lithograph by Pendleton, after Davis; 

and Bunker Hill Monument, engraving by Fowle, after 
Mallory. In a single frame. 

388-389 A vSeries of twenty-five small copperplate prints, ar- 
ranged within two frames, which are specified as follow : 
Tremont House and Theatre ; Mt. Pleasant Classical Insti- 
tution ; Charter Oak, Hartford; Nahant Hotel; Bunker 
Hill Monument ; Marine Hospital, Chelsea; Faneuil Hali 
Market ; State House ; City Hall, Boston ; Academy of 
Sciences, Philadelphia ; Tremont House, Boston ; Park 
Theatre, New York ; Battle Monument, Baltimore ; Upper 
Bridge, Philadelphia; Old State House, Boston; Bowling 
Green, New York ; Arcade, Providence ; Water-Works, 
Philadelphia ; State House, Boston ; St. Thomas' Church, 
New York ; Capitol, Washington ; Merchants' Exchange, 
Philadelphia ; Qriincy Market, Boston ; City Hall, New 
York ; President's House, Washington. 

Dudley R. Child. 

390 Hanover Street Church, erected 1826, burned 1S30; Rev. 

Lyman Beecher, Pastor; lithograph, after a painting by 
Davis. Mrs. Luther Barnes. 

391 Hon. Nathan Appleton {v. No. 346) ; photograph, after 

Healy's full-length portrait, in Mechanics' Hall, Lowell. 

Nathan Appleton. 

392 Samuel Gardner Drake, 179S-1S75, Antiquarian and 

Historian ; steel engraving by Schofi", at the age of 58. 
" Presented to the subscribers to the folio etlition of his 
History and Antiquities of Boston, by a few friends of the 
Author," with fac-simile autograph. 

William H. ]l hitmore. 

393 John Lothrop Motley, Plistorian, 1S14-1S77; Minister to 

Austria, 1S66-67 ; to England, 1S69-70; India-proof steel- 
plate engraving by Stuart, with fac-simile autograph. 

Nathan xippleton. 

394 Abbott Lawrence, 1792-1855 ; Merchant and Manufact- 

urer ; Minister to England, 1849-52; India-proof engrav- 
ing; with fac-simile autograph. Nathan Appleton. 

395 Portion of a window from the Royall House, Medford, 

with inscription cut by a diamond: "Isaac Royall, April 
25, 1749;" identified as his autograph. 

Miss Harriot N. Ward. 



THE SECOND FLOOR. 55 

396 The Vii.i.AGic of Qiiiiicy. and tlie Coiv^rcj^^atiotial Alccting- 

IIousc, built in i73-^' '"i^l taken ilcnvn in 182S; and of the 
monument to Josiah Qiiincy, Junior, erected by his son in 
1804; sketch in India ink b}- 5liss (^uincy in 1S23. 

jM/\ss Eliza S. ^il^/iincy. 

397 " The Striped Pk;," an incident of the Dedham Muster, 

Sept. 13, 1S3S ; framed broadside balkid. Dai/iel S. Lamson. 

398 Maverick House, East Boston, opened in 1835 > htlio<^raph 

by Pendleton. W'ilUain W . Wlicildon. 

399 State House, with the Beacon monument ; water-color 

taken in 1S05 for Benj. Gleason, the fatber of the tlonor ; 
one of the earhest representations of the vState House. 

Airs. William W. WJicildoii. 

400 Meeting-House of the First Baptist Society, vSalem Street, 

1679, after a ch-awint^ by Isaac T. vSmith, 1828. 

William A. Jjtncdlcar. 

401 State Street in 1S04; engraving after the painting by J. B. 

Alarston. William I I. Whittuorc. 

402 The Death of General Wolfe, in the attack on Qiiebec in 

17^9; engraving by Woollett of West's painting in posses- 
sion of Lord Grosvenor, with portraits. 

403 Broadside : '' A new methoti of Macarony making as \y\Az- 

ticed in Boston ;" framed caricature. Charles II. Stearns. 

404 Green Dragon Tavern, Union Street, built in 1677, the 

place of meeting of Warren, Adams, and other patriots 
before the Revolution; photograph of a pen and-ink draw- 
ing. TJio))ias /'". Feniple. 

405 Custom House, 1S52 ; photograph. 

Loan : Thomas C. De Carteret. 

406 View of Boston, the capital of New England; engraving 

from a drawing on the spot by Gov. Pownall, i757- 

407 Broadside : *•' The Bostonians paying the excise man, or tar- 

ring and feathering ; " framed caricature. 

Charles If. Stearns. 

408 Dr. Hudson, a notorious swindler and forger, standing in 

the pillory, with some well-known characters as spectators, 
1762; colored copperplate engraving by Nathaniel Hurd 
(No. 3S4). ' Loan: //. A. Ilolden. 

409 Old South Meetixg-House ; abas-relief in plaster of Paris ; 

framed. Nathan Appleton. 

410 Notice of meeting of the-' Alert Eagle Fire Society," 182S ; 

framed enfrravins:. TJieodorc 11. Bell. 



56 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

411 Bill of Ebenezer Clough, Paper-hans^er, to Mr. Whitman, 

1800, Boston Paper Staining Manufactory, Charles River 
Bridge, with engraved head-piece liy S. Hill ; framed. 

George H. Whiti)ian. 

412 " A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge, New Eng- 

land ; " electrotype reproduction of an old engraving in 
possession of the Mass. Hist. Soc, 1736. 

413 Proposal for the sale of the Exchange CoHee-House ; framed 

broadside advertisement, about 181 3. 

Charles E. Clark ^ ]\[.D. 

414 " The Tea-Tax Tempest," or, " The Anglo-American Rev- 

olution ; " allegorical copperplate engraving, 177S, with 
title in English, German, and French. 

415 The Third Edifice of the Hollis Street Church ; framed 

photograph. Franklin JBrozvn. 

416 The only House on Noddle's Island (now East Boston) 

in 1S24, called Woodbine Cottage, the residence of the 
Williams family ; photograph of a pencil drawing by John 
Avery, Jr. ; framed. Benjamin W. Gilbert. 

417 Bill of the last performance of the old Boston Theatre, Fed- 

eral Street, May 7? 1S52 ; framed. Henry Dreiv. 

418 Jeremiah Allex, i 750- i Soo ; High Sheriff of Suffolk ; copy 

in oil of Stuart's portrait. 

419 Lemuel Shaw, 17S1-1S61 ; Chief Justice of the Supreme 

Court of Mass., 1S30-60; photograph. James IV, Black. 

420 Edward Everett {v. No. 182) ; engraving Iw Sartain of a 

photograph, with fac-simile autograph. 

421 Wendell Philipps ; engraving by Stuart. 

James S. Hillard. 

^11 Mrs. Murray, }tee 'S,u(\\\\\ vSargent, 1751-1820; photograph 
of a portrait. William H. Whitfnore. 

423 The Old vSchool Boys' Association ; photographed at 

Nantasket, 1889. The Association. 

424 Rev. Thomas Prince, i6S7-i7'^8 ; Pastor of the Old South 

Church from 1718 ; mezzotint engraving by Pelham, after 
Greenwood, 1750, with Latin inscription. 

425 William Wirt, 1772-1834; Attorney-General of tlie U. S., 

1S17-30; lithograph by BuHbrd, after Liman's portrait 
" For Citizens of Boston," with fac-simile autograph. 

^Irs. RicJiard Perkins. 

426 Professors Agassiz and Benjamin Pierce, of Hai^vard Col- 

lege ; framed photograph. Loan : Frederick O. Pri)ice. 



THE SECOND FLOOR. 57 

427 Rev. Benjamix Colmax. D.D., 1673-17.^7; lust Pastor of 

the Brattle Square Church, 1699-1747; hcliotype of Smi- 
bert's portrait. J. Henry Stickney. 

428 The Boston, Pi-ymouth, and Saxdwicii mail coach, 1810; 

framed advertisement with picture of coach and landscape. 

Mrs. AJ. J\and. 

429 Enoagemext between the " Constitution "and '' (iuerricre," 

Aug. 19, iSi3 ; colored lithograph by Currier, New York. 

430 Camp of the Second Company Mass. Light Artillery, Nims' 

Battery, at Stewart's Place, Baltimore, 1861 ; colored litho- 
graph by Sachse, Baltimore. 

431 Moi.vxkaux, Lord Shuldham, Admiral of the White, visited 

Boston in command of a squadron, 1776; mezzotint en- 
graving with autograph. 

432 Rev. Johx Pierce, D.D., 1773-1S49: Pastor (;f the First 

Church of Brookline ; photograph. M/'ss Abby A. Pierce. 

433 WiLLE\M WiEKiNS Warrex, Merchant, 1814-S1 ; a direc- 

tor of the Bostonian Scjciety ; photograph. 

Mrs. Willi a7}i II'. li'arre?i. 

434 " Old axd New Bostox ; " The Old State House and the 

Ames and Sears l)uildings; framed photogra])li. 

Jo/ni Hastings. 

435 Harvard Ballads, No. 8: "Billy Park's," framed, with 

autograph : "With the author's compliments to Mr. Park, 
Lloyd McKim Garrison, May, 1889." iVat/ian Appleto>i. 

436 Certificate of the admission of Joseph C. Winter to the 

Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Sept. 28, 
1S57 ; signed by Thomas \\. Chickering, Conup.ander, and 
by the Clerk; "frauK-d steel engraving by I>owell & P.rett, 
after Champney. Miss Alary J£. \\ i)iter. 

437 The Third Edifice of the First Church, which stood on 

the site of the present R(;gers Building on Washington 
Street fron'i 1713 to iSoS; framed photograph. 

D. If 'aldo Salisbury. 

438 IL^KRisox (Jrav Otis ; small engraving. 

Loan : Ariiini Miiilcr. 

439 The Webster House, Marshlield ; plu^tograph. 

Josepli Si/i/cs. 

440 Josiah Qi-ixcv ; cravcni bv Furniss, after Stuart, 1824. 

Loan : Miss Abby P. .^llnincy. 

441 IIoLLis-STREET Church ; built 1 78S ; w\u\<^i\ to Ibaintree 

1810; photograph taken in 1893. 

Alexaf/iler G. P>uv:ditc'i. 



58 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

442 St. Andrew's Church and Parish House ; Chambers vStreet, 

1S93 ; heHotype. Rev. Reiiben Kidner. 

443 The Great Fire in Boston, Nov. 9, 1S73 ; lithograph. 

Loan : Alfred S. Manson. 

444 Certificate of membership in the Northern Antiquarian So- 

ciety ; signed by the President, Christian IX., of Denmark, 
1 84 1. Rev. C. D. Bradlec. 

445 Hatchment, or coat-of-arms, of the Willard family ; worked 

in silk by Miss Mary Willard, daughter of President Wil- 
lard of Harvard College, in 1795. 

Loan : Miss Susaima Willard. 



HANCOCK ROOM. 

446 John IL-vxcock, 1737-92; President of the Provincial and 

Continental Congresses; first Major-General of the Mas- 
sachusetts Militia; Governor, 17S0-S5 and 1787-92; 
mezzotint engraving by J. M. Will, after Littleford, 
three-fourths' length, standing at a table holding a letter 
addressed, "Monsieur Israel Putnam, Major-General, 
Long Island." 

447 The Same ; photograph of Copley's portrait, the second 

one painted ; an oval picture, representing him dressed in 
a blue coat laced with gold ; in possession of the Hancock 
fa m i ly . A rth u r I V. I f Ilia rd. 

448 The Same; a hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled : 

"The Ilon'ble John Hancock, Esqr., late President of the 
Continental Congress." Loan : Saniitcl A. Greeti^ jM.jD. 

449 Dorothy Quincv, 1747-1829; cousin of Josiah Qiiincy, 

" the Patriot" (No. 225) ; married John Hancock, at Fair- 
field, Conn., 1775, afterwards Capt. James Scott, 1789; 
photograph of Copley's poi trait, three-fourths' length, 
seated, her hand raised to her face ; in possession of 
Miss Gushing, Little Harbor, N.H. 

Loan : Mrs. Mary S. Israel. 

450 The Same, in old age, in cap and rutf; lithograph of Miss 

Goodrich's portrait. Milliam U. Gree7ioi(gJi. 

451 Hancock House, 1737-1863, built hy Thomas Hancock; 

oil painting. Loan : Mrs. Frances C. Bacon. 

452 The Same ; photograph, the frame made from a moulding 

taken from the house. 



THE SECOND FLOOR. 59 

453 TiiK vSamh ; colored photojj^iaph. 

454 Thk Samk ; three photoi^raplis of the interior, the frame 

made from wood of the house. 

1. Parlor : on the piano are the liihles of Gov. Han- 
cock's father and great-grandfather (ministers at Braintree 
and Lexington), to lie seen in the Hancock Case ; the Gov- 
ernor's cane in the corner. 

2. Hall, and upper landing: on the left, the (jovernor's 
room, where he died. On the right, tlic room occupied by 
Washington, Lafavette, and others. 

3. Reception-room : portrait of Gov. Hancock by Cop- 
ley, and of Thomas Hancock by the same artist. 

Gcor^'e jr. Chipniaii . 

455 The Same ; embroidery iu crewels, framed, with dependent 

card signed "Harrison Gray Otis," saying : "A view of 
the Hancock House and Appendages and of the Common 
and vicinitv, as they were in 1755-60. Tliis eml)roidery 
(in crewels) was the boarding-school lesson of Miss 
Hannah Otis, daughter of the Hon. James Otis, of Barn- 
stable [No. 254], and sister of the patriot. James Otis, Jr. 
[No. 293,] ; educated in Boston. It was considered ackej- 
ifcciivre., and made a great noise at the time. The science 
of perspective was not worthy of Claude Lorraine, but 
perhaps not behind that of some who then, and since, have 
had the care of the Conunon. The figure on horseback 
represents Gov. Hancock ; the person running, his servant ; 
the lady looking over the wall in Charles river is Doroth\ 
Qinncy, afterward Mrs. Gov. Hancock." 

Loan : Harrison Gray Otis. 

456 Elbridge Gerry, 1774-1814; Member of the Continental 

Congress, and of the Constitutional Convention ; of Con- 
gress, 1789-93; Governor, 1810-11 ; Vice-President of the 
U. S., 1813-14; mezzotint engraving liy J. R. Smith, 
181 1 ; half length, seated, with folded arms. 

]V. H. Ireland. 

457 Rev. Samuel Stillman, D.D., 1737-1807 ; delegate to the 

Constitutional Convention, 178S ; Pastor of the First Bap- 
tist Church, 1 765-1807 ; oil portrait, kit-kat size, by John- 
son. Rev. John Banvard., D.D. 

458 Sampler worked in 1767 by Mrs. Mary K. Frothingham, 

grandmother of the Hon. Richard Frothingham, of Charles- 
town ; framed. ^[rs. Mary T. Goddard. 

459 Presentation of the Declaration of Independence to the 

Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 ; engraving by Durand, 
after Trumbull, with key. 



6o BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

460 The Declaration of Independence ; engraved copy by 

Stor\' and Atwood. with portraits, and arms of the original 
States ; dedicated to the people of the United States, by 
William Woodrnfi: 

461 The Oed Corner Bookstore, 1712; water-color by C. E. 

HoUis, 1SS5. Loan : E. C. Haminey. 

462 The Oed Elm, before the first storm which injured it, June 

29, 1S60; framed photograph. 

Vincent T. Bozvditch^ M.D, 

463 The Same, painted on a veneered piece of the tree. 

Josiah ^itincy^ Jr. 

464 State Street in 1825 ; oil painting by Salmon. 

465 The Old May House, formerly on Washington Street, 

opposite Head Place, now Lucas Street ; framed photo- 
graph. Moses W. Weld, M.D. 

466 The Frigate " Constitution," built in Hartt's Yard, 

Constitution Wharf, launched Oct. 21, 1797; framed pho- 
tograph, with a piece of the frame of the captain's bed. 

Waldo TJiojnpso>i. 

467 The vSame ; oil painting by Pollard, 1846. 

Benjamin F. Stevens. 

468 Isaac Hull {y. No. 234) ; copperplate engraving of Stu- 

art's portrait; underneath, a representation of the engage- 
ment between the " Constitution " and " Guerriere," drawn 
by the order of Hull himself; dedicated to the people of 
the United States by T. W. Freeman, published in Phila- 
delphia in 1813. Be7zjaiuin F. Stevens. 

469 Old State House in flames, 1832; copy in oil of Salmon's 

joainting. Daniel J. Co7irt)iey. 

470 Shop of Adams & Hammond, corner of Cross and Fulton 

Streets, 1S30; oil painting. Loan: W. H. Adams. 

471 The Conflagration at Charlestown, Aug. 25, 1835; 

water-color made during the progress of the tire from the 
top of a pile of lumber on the wharf in the foreground of 
the picture (the Fitchburg R.R. Station now covers the 
place) ; painted by R. P. AlaUory. 

472 Dock Square; oil painting by Taylor Buzzell, from a 

sketch made by Nathaniel Holmes in 1811. 

473 First Corps of Cadets, M.V.M., in the procession at the 

Centennial Celebration of the adoption of the Constitution 
at Piiiladelpliia, Sept. 16, 1887; instantaneous photograph ; 
framed. Lt.-Col. Thomas F. Edmands. 



THE SFXOND FLOOR. 6i 

474 House ok Thomas Mei.vii.lk, of the " Boston Tea Partv," 

in Green Street, 1832 ; with a lire-engine phiving upon 
Dr. Jenks' Church ; oil painting liy Sahnon. 

JoJdi Z>' Wolf and Nancy M. Doivner. 

475 Henkv Laurens, 1724-92; President of the Continental 

Congress, 1777-7S ; Minister to Ilollantl, 1779 ; signed the 
preliminaries of peace at Paris, 1783 ; me/./.otint engraving 
by Green, of London, with seated Indian holding armsan(l 
motto, after portrait by Coplev, "• R. A. Elect," 1782 ; pub- 
lished by Stockdale, London. Loan : Abrani E. Cutier. 

476 Rev. Hosea Ballou, 1771-1852; Pastor of the Second 

Universalist Society, 1S17; steel engraving by Walter, of 
Philadelphia, after Onthank, and published bv J. M. 
Usher, Cornhill, Boston. JosJiita Jl. Pitnian. 

477 Letteh of George Washington, Mt. Vernon, Feb. 22, 

1788, to the Marquis de Chartier de Lalbiniere ; framed. 

Fra)ik B. Ingalls. 

478 George Washington ; mezzotint engraving by Savage, 

1793, from his portrait painted for Harvard College. 

77icodorc H. Bell. 

479 The Same ; steel engraving by A. Rosenthal. 

Moses W. Weld, M.D. 

480-481-482 The Same ; engravings of portraits ; the last an 
oval profile from a cameo. Moses \\\ If eld, AI.D. 

483 "Sacked to Patriotism;" copperplate print; dedicated 

to Congress. A. C. Baldivin. 

484 The Triumph of Liberty ; an allegorical engraving by 

Verger of Renaidt's drawing. New York, 1795- 

Bcza Lincoln. 

485 Inauguration of the Cochituate Water-^Vorks on Boston 

Common, Oct. 2^, 1S4S; lithograph, with portraits of 
Daniel Webster and others ; with heavy carved frame of 
fruit, flowers, etc. Heirs of l^homas B . Curtis. 

486 The Franklin Statue ; engraving after a draw ing by 

Hammatt Billings. Loan: City of Boston. 

487 Benjamin Frankein seated at a table reading; engravetl 

and published by Savage, London, 1793. after Martin. 

Bhcodorc II. Bell. 

488 The Same; steel engra\-ing by Babson & Andrews, after 

Duplessis. Willi am IF. W// it more. 

489 Birthplace of Franklin, in Milk Street, opposite the Old 

South Meeting-house ; lithograph bv Powers & \\'ellers. 

Mrs. Marv /'\ Bartlett. 



62 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

490 The Arms of George Washington, so called, in colors; 

framed. William C. B 21 r rage. 

491 Ralph Inman, of Cambridge, 1711-SS; a Loyalist in the 

Revolution, arrested by the Council in '76 ; etching. 

C. R. Hildebourn. 

492 Residence of Ralph Inman, in Cambridge; heliotype re- 

production of a sketch. David G. Haskins^ Jr. 

493 Whig Ticket in the presidential election of 1840, Harrison 

and Tyler ; framed. John T. Prince. 

494 Faneuil Hall Market, east view, 1834; engraving. 

Henry P. Curtis. 

495 " Acorn's" Old Salt House, 49 Long Wharf; water-color ; 

" Edwin Forrest formerly spent here many a happy hour 
with his friend James Oakes, known to the press under 
the pseudonym of 'Acorn;' and Hawthorne is said to 
have written here a portion of the ' Scarlet Letter.' " 

William H. Spillcr. 

496 BoYLSTON Market, 1809-S7; woodcut. Satnucl Johnson. 

497 Mr. and Mrs. Sloman's Benefit, Boston Theatre, Jan. 30, 

1S28 ; framed play-bill printed on silk. A. C. Slater. 

498 Gridley Bryant, 1789-1867; engineer and builder of 

the first railroad in the United States, 1S26, and inventor 
of the four and eight wheel railway truck ; small oil por- 
trait; given by his son Gridley J. F. Bryant. 

499 The First Meeting-house in Boston, 1632, Rev. John Wilson, 

Pastor; electrotype reproduction of an imaginary sketch. 

Ward Brooks Frothifigham. 

500 Christ Church and Charter Street, 1SS4; oil painting, 

1 888. G. N. Fanght. 

501 The Boston Light, 1889; oil painting by Miss M. S. 

Goodale. 

502 Benjamin Franklin Butler, 1818-1S93 ; Major-General 

of Volunteers, 1S61 ; Member of Congress, 1866-71 ; 
Governor, 1883 ; oil portrait, 1850. 

William H. Whitmore. 

503 Verses on the Visit of the West Point Cadets to Boston, 

August, 1821 ; framed broadside. Loan : D. W. Gibbs. 

504 Miss Tree's last night but three ; Tremont Theatre, Nov. 

28, 1837; framed play-bill, heading enclosed in trees. 

505 Settp;e made of wood of the " Old Elm." 

Loan : City of Boston. 



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63 



506 The Arrival at Boston of the first Cunarcl steamship, the 

"Unicorn," June 3, 1840; the Revenue cutter '• Ilainil- 
ton," decorated for the occasion, in the foreground; 
painted liy Lane, of Gloucester, for the commander, Capt. 
Josiah Sturgis, and given liy him to the Collector, ex-Gov. 
Lincoln, and to this Societv bv the hitter's daughter, 

Mrs. P. S. CaufiehL 

507 Boston about iSoo; colored lithograph. 

Airs. Mary Loivcll Pittiiat)!. 

508 Hon. Ebenezer Seaver, M.C, and the tree still stand- 

ing in Roxbury into which the first seckel pear was grafted, 
about iSio; two photographs, frametl together. 

Miss Sarah Parker. 

509 Engagement of the " Constitution " and the British frigate 

"Java," off the coast of Brazil, Nov. 29, 1S12 ; dedicated 
" to Commodore Bainbridge, the officers, seamen, and 
marines and the sons of freedom, by an admirer of Amer- 
ican valour and patriotism ;" copperplate engraving, hand- 
colored, " drawn under the direction of a witness of the 
action by W.G. ; " and undoubtedly nearly contempora- 
neous with it ; frametl. Benjamin F. Stevens. 



COMMISSION ROOM. 

510-543 Framed Commissions, signed by Governors of Alassa- 
chusetts Bay or of Massachusetts : 



Joseph Dudley, i 70S. 
Samuel Shute, 1731. 
Jonathan Belcher, 173S. 
William Shirlp:v, 1751,(3). 
Thomas Pownall, 1759. 
Francis Bernard, 1762. 
James Bowdoin, 17S6. 
John Hancock, 17S8. 
Samuel Adams, 1796. 
Increase Sumner. 1798. 
Moses Gill, Lt.-Gov., 1799. 
Caleb Strong, 1807. 
James Sullu'An, 1808. 
Christopher Gore, 1810. 
Elbridge Gerry, 181 i. 
John Brooks, 1821. 
William Ei^stis, 1S24. 



Levi Lincoln, 1829. 
Edward Everett, 1S39. 
John Davis, 1842. 
Marcus Morton, 1S43. 
George N. Briggs, 1849. 
George S. Boiitwell, 1S51. 
Henry J. Gardner, 1855. 
Nathaniel P. Banks, 1856. 
John xV. Andrew, 1865. 
Alexander H. Bi'llock, 186S. 
William B. Washiu-rx, 1872. 
William Gaston, 1875. 
Alexander II. Rice, 1876. 
Thomas Talboi", Lt.-Gov.. 

Joiix I). Long, 1881. 
'Oli\-er Ames, 1888. 



64 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

544 Sir Henry Vane (the younger), 1612-66; emigrated, 1635; 

Governor of Mass., 1636; returned to England, 1637; 
member of Parliament and of the Council of State ; exe- 
cuted after the Restoration ; order to Thomas Faucon- 
bridge, Receiver-General of the Revenue, signed by Sir 
Henry Vane and other members of the Commission of the 
Revenue, May 15, 1644; framed, like all other commis- 
sions and other documents in this room. 

545 Commission of William Hewetson to be Captain-Lieu- 

tenant in the 2Sth Regiment; signed bv George III., and 
countersigned by Lord George Germain, Dec. 22, 177^* 

546 Commission of Jeremiah Hill in James Scammon's Regi- 

ment; signed by General Joseph Warren. May 19, i775- 

Loan : George W. Allen. 

547 Commission of Hezekiah Brop to be Captain in the 5th 

Middlesex Regiment; signed by James Otis and a major- 
ity of the Council of Massachusetts Bay, March 28, 1776; 
the following words being erased : " In the sixteenth year 
of the reign of his Majesty, King George the Third, Anno 
Domini i^^6.'' 

548 Commission by the same of Ichabod Thayer to be Captain 

of the ^th Company, 3d Worcester Regiment, Dec. 31, 
1779. 

549 Commission of John Crane to be Brevet-Brigadier-Gen- 

eral, U. S. A. ; signed by Elias Boudinot, President of 
Congress, and Benjamin Lincoln, Oct. 10, i^^2>- 

Geor<re IV. Allen. 

o 

550 Autograph of William Stou(;hton, Chief Justice and 

Acting Governor of Mass., April 5, 1675. 

Ilcirs of D. T. V. Hiintooi. 

Commission of Colonel Benjamin Pollard to be Notary 
Public, issued by the x\rchbishop of Canterbury, April 6, 
1738; hcliotype. William C. Bnrraffe. 

552 Broadside : Order of procession on the visit of Washington 

to Boston, Nov. 2, 17S9. Edivai-d R, Mayo. 

553 Deed of Marv Lake to the Selectmen of the town of Bos- 

ton, Nov. 30, 1677, of the room or cellar under the stair- 
case at the north-east end of the Town House. 

Loan : George B. Ager. 

554 Parchment conveyance to Stephen French by Elizabeth 

Rawlings, relict and administratrix of the estate of Caleb 
Rawlings, of Boston, dated the last Tuesday of April, 1694. 

William H. WJiitfnore. 



551 



THE SECOND 1^'LOOR. 65 

555 Engrossed parchment copy of the will of CJeovi^e Worthi- 

hike. Senior, of " Peniberton's Island, within the township 
of Boston," April 4, 1693. His son, Geori^e Woitliilake, 
Junior, lirst keeper of Boston Li<;iit, was drowned in Bos- 
ton Harbor in 171S, while sailino- to town. His bodv was 
recovered and l)uried upon Copp's Hill. 

1^/10 1)1 as Shcnnan. 

556 Broadside : Thanksgivin_L( proclamation (jf (jovernor Samuel 

Adams, Oct. 6. 1795 ; printed copy. 

557 Broadside : " The Runaway; " or, a " Keen Joke," a song 

referring to the second visit of Ednuuul Kean to Boston in 
1835. 

558 Autograph of General Thomas Ga(;i-: ; certificate to 

Lieutenant John Phillips, " a reduced officer ; " New York, 
Sept. 4, 1764. 

51^9 Broadside: Monody to the mcmor\- of (iecrt^e III., by the 
late Dr. VValcot. 

560 Programme of exercises at the meeting in commemoration 

of General Washington in Boston, at the Old South Meet- 
ing House, Jan. 6, 1800. Loan : Frauds B. Gilman. 

561 Certieicate of membership of William Perkins as a mem- 

ber of the Massachusetts Humane Society, June 12, 1810. 

562 Autograph of Governor John Winthrop, •• a deposition 

taken upon oathe the 8th day of the 6: mo: F639, T^efore 
Jo : Winthrcjp, Cjov." Robert C. Wii/fhrop. 

563 Broadside : Bloody butchery of the British troops at Con- 

cord fight, April "19, 1775. J- B. Hatch, Executor. 

564 Broadside : '• Bloody Indian Massacre," or the battle of 

Miami Village. Ohio, Nov. 4, 1791, where Gen. St. Clair 
with 3,000 men was surprised by 5,000 Indians, and most 
of his force destroyed. George B. Reed. 

565 Broadside: " Inhuman Cruelty," or '' Vilhmy Detected," a 

v.-oodcut with verses. 

566 The Old State Hoi'si-: in ilames, an electrot\pe reproduc- 

tion of Salmon's oil painting, representing the Old State 
House in tlames in the fh'e of 1833 {v. No. 469.) 

W'illia})! II. Whifiuore. 

567 Policy of Insurance of the Mass:ichusetts Fire and Marine 

Insurance Company, dated Boston, Nov. 3, iSo3 ; copper- 
plate engraving by J. Hill, after a drawing by N. Hancock, 
showing the Old" State Hou-c and State Street at an early 
period." Henry C. Short. 



66 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

568 The Old State House ; six heliotype reductions of views 
taken at different times, — from Bowen's picture, 1830; 
map, 1S35 ; Snow's Geography, 1830; Hales' Survey. 
1S14; the State Street end, 1880; Washington Street end, 
1S80. Will lam H. Whit more. 

569-581 The Old State House; engravings, lithographs, and 
photographic views, showing this building from 1791 to 
the present time. William H. Whitniore and others. 

582 Certificate of payment of $300 by the Hon. Nathan Ap- 

pleton to the N. E. Institute for the Education of the Blind, 

iS33- 

583 Certificate of donation of gifts by Mrs. L. Russell to the 

soldiers, 1861 ; signed " Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis," for tlie 
committee on military donations. 

554 Sailing permit on parchment, with engraved head-piece of 

the Boston Light, etc. ; signed in blank by President An- 
drew Jackson ; countersigned, John Forsyth, Secretary of 
State ; no date. Frank B. Ingalh. 

555 Sign (over door), representing carpenter's tools. Carved 

by John Fowle, about 1S20, for John Bradford, hardware 
dealer, 13 Dock Square ; presented l)y his successors 

A. E. Johonnot and G. S. Saunders. 

586 Sailing permit of ship '' O'Cain," Jan. 21, 1S03, issued by 

Thomas Jefferson, President, and countersigned by James 
Madison, Secretary of vState. showing in the foreground a 
copperplate engraved view of Boston Light. 

587 Resolutions passed on board the steamship " Britannia," on 

her passage from Liverpool to Boston ; signed by Charles 
Dickens as secretary of a meeting called Jan. 31, 1843, to 
subscribe to a testimonial in the form of a piece of plate 
to be given to the captain, John Hewett. 

Wil/iam IV. Wheildon. 

588 Broadside: "The Figure Plead of the Constitution dis- 

figured," with verses and woodcut showing Samuel VV. 
Dewey cutting oft' the head of the figure representing 
Andrew Jackson, during a thunder-storm, on the night of 
July 3, 1834. Jarnes B. Maynard. 

589 Certificate of the U. S. Treasury to Benjamin Lincoln 

(No. 131) ; signed by Alexander Hamilton, 1792. 

590 Simon Bradstreet (Governor, 1679-86) ; autograph, dep- 

osition of Joseph Parker, 1683. 

591 Broadside : Speeches of Lords Camden and Abingdon in 

the House of Lords, March 16, 1775, on American affairs. 

Henshaiv B. Walley. 



THE SrXOND FLOOR. ^j 

592 IjiiOADSiDE aiinouncinpj the surrender c;f Coniwallis at. York- 

town. Published at Boston, Oct. 26, 1781. 

H. />'. TczvksbiDy. 

593 Broadside: printed cojjy f)f the vote of Boston in town- 

meeting, April 21, 1766, to illuminate the town in celebra- 
tion of the repeal of the Stamp Act. //. B. Tcivkshiiry. 

594 BuoADSiDE : published at New London, Conn., Dec. :;, iSi.:. 

announcing the capture oi' the British frigate " Macedo- 
nian." Oct. 35, 1S12, b\ the I'niteti States frigate ''United 
States," Conimodoie Decatur. />'"'. Ji. Winter. 

595 Cektificate of meml^ershij) of Thomas B. ILjpkins in the 

Boston Sea Fencibles, March 18, 18 19. Engraved on cop- 
per by Annin and French, showing in tlie background 
Boston Light. 

596 Certificate of membership of Samuel Mylod in the Massa- 

chusetts JMechanic Association, Sept. 18, 1800. J f. Hodsou. 

597 Broadside : notice to assessors by Harrison Gray, Treasurer 

and Receiver-General (;f JvLissacluisetts Bay, Dec. 31, 
1773, with his autograph. H. B. Tezvksh/try. 

598 Broadside : an oihcial copy of the Declaration of Independ- 

ence, printed in Boston bv Jolni Gill, and Powers and 
Willis in Qiieen Street. Loan : Stillmaji P. AfarsJt. 

599 Nathaniel New^digate's *• Fine," or grant of land at 

Rumney Mar.sh, June 15; recorded Dec. 21, 1687, ''for 
his Majesty, James IPs territory and dominion of New 
England ;" given l)v Governor Andros to replace the iX^^i^^X 
declared xoid after the overthrow of the first charter (.f tlie 
Massachusetts Bav Colony ; an original i\QQiX., beginning, 
•'Jacobus Secundus," v\ritten in black-letter on a sheet 
containing the portrait of the King printed in scroll-work, 
and a border of animals, with the written words, '' Sold at 
Clitibrd's Inn Lane:" at the bottom, the signature of the 
King and an impression of tlie Great Seal in wax ; prob- 
ably the onlv such original conveyance in existence. 

William \\\ Grceiiojig/i . 

5oo Broadside: printed notice to freeholders of town-meeting 
in Boston, March 4, 1822, to act upon the adoption of a 
city charter. Moses Grant DanicU. 

601 Deposition of Riciund IlunnewoU, as to the ownership of 

land in Scarborough, before Josli. Soottoxs , [.P. ; iramed 
autograph, April 30, x6S6. 

602 Petition of Adam W'inthro]) and olliers. May 8, 1734, to 

enlarge the lane at the lower ^wX of the Common, from 
Mr. Sheaf's to Frog Lane ; framed :uit(jgriiph. 



68 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

603 Notification in piint to the freeholders of Boston to meet 

at the Town Hall, April 27, 17S1, to supply the town's de- 
ficiency in the Continental Army. 

604 The Gerrymander; framed copy of the " U. S. Gazette." 

April 24, 1S13, containing a satirical article on Governor 
Gerry, entitled " The funeral of the Gerrymander." 

JMiss Abby P. ^uincy. 

605 Commission of the privateer brig " Abaellino," signed by 

James Madison, and countersigned by James Monroe, 
Secretary of State, Dec. 10, 1814 ; indorsed, " Surrendered 
at the conclusion of peace, August, 1S15." 

SaDiucl Andrews. 

606 Certificate of membership of the lion. Nathan Appleton 

in the American Colonization Society, 1S4S ; signed "• H. 
Clav." Nathan Appleton. 

607 Broadside : printed Proclamation of Fast Day, by Gover- 

nor Hancock, April 3, 17S3. 

608 Broadside : order of arrangements for the reception of Gen- 

eral Lafayette, in City Council, Aug. 20, 1S24. 

Henry P. Curtis. 

609 Buoadsidk: Thanksgiving Proclamation of Governor Povv- 

nall, Nov. 10, 1759; printed copy. 

610 Certificate of membership of Ciiarles Brown in the Bun- 

ker Hill Monument Association ; signed by Daniel Web- 
ster and others. Edxvard I. Browne. 

on Certificate of membership of the Hon. Nathan Appleton 
in the Naval Library and Listitute, April 3, 1S43. 

William I. Appleton.. 

012 Assessors' list of personal property, Sept. i, 1784- 

Jeremiah Colbiirn. 

613 Order of Procession at the funeral of Governor Hancock, 

Oct. 14, 1793. 

614 Passport issued to John Bromiield. Jr., and signed by 

Gov. Strong, Oct. 16, 1S05. J. P. ^uincy. 

615 Broadside : handbill calling upon the citizens of vSouth 

Boston to meet at Faneuil Hall to oppose building Federal 
Street Bridge to South I'oston, March 15, 1824. 

John J. May. 

610 Certificate of the coni.ibution of live dollars by Albert 
Betterley, as a Franklin medal scholar, to the erection of 
the statue to Benjamin Franklin, 1S54; engraving. 

Albert Betterley. 



THE UPPER STORY. 69 

617 Ckrtificate of the election of Captain Luke Keef to the 

Boston Marine Society, March 3, 1801. 

618 Rir.L OF T. Giles to Ponieioy and Simpson (Ann Street), 

showing view of the old Feather Store. //'. K. Watkins. 

6ig Faxeuil Halt, lottery ticket, signed by John Hancock ; 
issued to rebuild the hall alter the lire ot" 176^. 

Chai'lcs L. Hancock. 

620 Broadside: bill of entertainment by Potter, a noted ventrilo- 
(juist, and his wife, colored prestidigitateurs, with verses, 
1S15. J/c/rs of I). T. J\ Iliintoo)!. 



THE UPPER STORY. 

621 The Boston Massacre; colored lithograph by Butlbrd, 

after a design by Champney. Edzvard H. Savage. 

622 Washington's Entry into New York city, Nov. 25, 17S3 ; 

printed in oil colors by Duval & Son, Philadelphia. 

623 The Latin and English High School Building, designcl 

by George A. Clough, citv architect ; photo-lithograph b\- 
Buflbrd of the architect's plan, drawn by Samuel J. 
Ilrown. William H. IVhitmorc. 

624 The: Boston and Charles River Basin ; colored lithograph 

by Bufford, made for Charles Davenport, the first pro- 
jector of the Embankment. Chanes Davenport. 

625-627 State Street, from Washington to Devonshire Streets ; 
Brazer's Building; the entrance to Cornhill from Wash- 
ington Street ; three lithographs by Pendleton, after Mayer. 

JcrcmiaJi Colbur)i. 

628 The Boston Light Infantry; coloretl print of a member 

in the uniform of 1S33, with another in the back<iround in 
the original uniform of the comjiany. 

Loan : Satnitel A/idrezcs. 

629 Panoramic Yiew of the '' Burnt District," from a point 

opposite Trinity Churcii, vSummer Street ; photograph, by 
James W. Black, for " Leslie's Illustiated Newspaper ; " 
framed. 

630 Plan of the '' Burnt District," showing tlie Im[)rovements 

of streets adopted by the Street Commissioners and the 
City Council ; heliotype reproduction. 

T//e Boston Safe Deposit Conipa?iy. 



70 BOSTON IAN SOCIETY. 

631-633 View of Fort George, with the city of New York ; 
a South-east view of Boston, in North America ; an East 
Perspective view of Philadelphia, in the Province of Penn- 
sylvania ; three engravings by Carnitham, printed in colors, 
by Bowles & Carver, London, 177S. Charles F. Cox. 

634 Articles of Cooperation in case of fire, etc., adopted 
by certain citizens of Boston, March 8, 1741 ; framed 
broadside. Jeremiah Colburjt. 

635-636 Boston and Tri-mountain ; two oil paintings, taken 
from the sides of Engine No. 15 ; framed. 

J^lrs. John G. Lozu. 

637 John vStanhope Damrell, born 1S3S; chief engineer of 

the Fire Department, 1S66-74; lithograph. 

John S. Da/nrcll. 

638 Certificate of vService for seven years in the Fire 

Department, given to William M. Fernald in 1S33, 
signed by Thomas C. Amory, chief engineer (No. 136) ; 
with a representation of the '■'• Old State House in flames," 
after Salmon {v. No. 468) ; framed copperplate engrav- 
ing. Albert H. Fernald. 

639 View of the Obelisk under the Liberty Tree, erected for the 

celebration of the Repeal of the Stamp Act, 1766 ; electro- 
type reproduction of a copperplate engraving by Paul 
Revere. William H. Whitmore. 

640 Map of the first Boston Fire Alarm Telegraph, 1853. 

jSIrs. neither Fames. 

641 George Reed, constable . from 1S09 to 1839, e>^cept two 

years ; oil portrait by Johnson. 

Loan : Gtistaviis Andrexvs. 

642 The Board of Health, from 1799 to 1822; names of mem- 

bers and officers ; framed broadside. 

George H. Whitman. 

643 The Chiefs of Police of Boston : Francis Tuke}-, 

1846-52; Gilbert Nourse, 1852-54; Robert Taylor, 
1854-56; Daniel J. Coburn, 1S56-61 ; Josiah L. C. 
Amee, 1861-63; John Kurtz, 1863-70; Edward H. Sav- 
age, 1870-7S; photograph. Edxvard H. Savage. 

644 Daguerreotype, representing the Mayor and Aldermen 

of Boston, 1848, as follows : A/ayor., Josiah Qiiincy, Jr. ; 
Alder?nen^ Moses Grant, Billings Briggs, Frederick Gould, 
William P*ope, Henrv B. Rogers, John Hathaway, J. H. 
Wilkins, John P. dber ; City Clerk, S. F. McCIeary ; 
City Afarshal.1 Francis Tukey. 

Loan : Estate of the Hon. Josiah ^nincy., Jr. 



THE UPPER STORY. 71 

645 EowAitn IIartwef.t. Savacw:, 1812-93; nicml^cr of the 

police force thirty-six years ; chief of police, and piobation 
officer ; photograph. Rd-jjard JI. Savage. 

646 Certificate of George W. Allan, as member of Engine 

Company No. 12, 1830. George JI. Allan. 

647 The Boston Massacre, with verses; an English reprint 

of Paul Revere's engraving {v. 366), printed and sold liy 
Bingley, Newgate St., London; the frame once belonged 
to Francis Rotch, owner of the taxed tea ships {v. 
Case "•£"). I>oan : DxvigJit Whiting. 

648 House, No. 62 Ann Street, in 1812 ; the site of the present 

Oak Hall, then owned and occupied by C. B. Simmons, 
clothier: water-color, by \\'illiam M. Kenvon, 1835. 

Loan: William C. Laxvrcnce. 

649 Old Feather Store, Dock Square, 1680-1860; colored 

lithograph, b}' Prang. Edward A. Wliite. 

650 Thp: Same ; electrotype rejDroduction of an old print, giving 

the south view. Mrs. George W. JSIannder. 

651 Old Building, corner of Ann Street; lithograph by Pen- 

dleton, after a drawing by F. H. Lane, in 1835. 

William If. W/iitj?2ore. 

652 Residence of Gardiner Greene, on Pemberton Hill ; ;isso- 

ciated with the names of Rev. John Cotton, Sir Harrv 
Vane, and Judge Samuel Sewall. Patrick JeH'rev, who 
married the sister of the celebrated John Wilkes, once 
owned it. Li 1775 it was the residence of Lord Percv. 
Gardiner Greene came into possession earl}' in the present 
century. The house was taken down about 1S35; plioto- 
graph of a drawing. William II. WJtitmorc. 

553 The Environs of Boston, from Corey Hill, Brookline, 
lithograph Iw Buflbrd of a sketch bv F. Richardson in 
1854, with key. CJiarlcs Libbey. 

654 jSIinot's Ledge Light-House; colored lithograph. 

[/ Illiam II. Whitmorc. 

655 Hannah Adams, 1755-1S31 ; author of a " History of the 

Jews" and other historical works; the first person interred 
in Mount Aubiu'n Cemetery; oil portrait. 

George K. Danicll. 

656 Augustus Addison (jould, i8o=;-66; a naturalist, and 

author of works in zoology and conchology ; photograph. 

George li . Ager. 

657 A Fire-bag of canvas, formerly used bv the lire-wards \ •> 

remove goods from burning buildings; inscribed: ''W. 
Cranch, 1792, No. 1 ; B. Willis, Jr., 1794, No. i ; J. 
Thaxter, No. i." Loan: Charles O. Pratt. 



72 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

5.53 A Fire Bucket, marked "Martin Brimmer, Boston Fire 
Club." Loan : JoJtn S. Damrell. 

659 The Contkact for cutting a channel through the ice in 
Boston Harbor for the steamship " Britannia," February, 
1844, •''igiietl by a committee, Benjamin Rich, chairman ; 
original tramed document. Loan : W\ K. Watki)is. 

060 " The Hub ; " a view of Boston from the harbor; aquarelle 
print, by Ackermann, from a drawing by Langerfeldt, 
1S83. 

661 Ramage Printing-Press, once used by Benjamin Franklin, 
in Qiieen Street. London ; purchased from the estate of 
Ben: Perley Poore by WiJIitDn W. Warren. 

562 Benjajhn Frankeix at his press ; lithograph of a drawing 
by E. Woodbur}'. JSI. Jt\ Brush. 

663 Gravestone found in the Granary Burying-Ground while 

digging for repairs to the Tremont House, with inscrip- 
tion : "An Leger, 16S1 " (Anna, wife of Jacob Leger, 
or Leager). J. Aloutgoniery Sears. 

664 Gravestone of blue Welsh slate, inscribed: "Here lyeth 

ye Body of William Middleton Aged 74 years ; Died 
March ye 3, 1699." Loan : The Old South Church. 

665 Gravestone of Joshua Lewis, 1673 ; also, three old carved 

gravestones, given by 

The Bosfon Gas Light Company. 

666 Iron Fire-back of the chimney-piece of the Blue Room of 

the Hancock House, with the date " 1737," the year the 
house was built. Charles E. French. 

667 Resolutions of thanks to Captain R. B. Forbes and the 

other officers of the United States sloop " Jamestown," 
lying at Cork, with supplies for the destitute Irish ; passed 
April 18, 1847, ^^ ^'^^ Council Room of the Irish Confed- 
eracy, Dublin, signed by Thomas F. Meagher and others ; 
embossed document, framed. James F. Cotter. 

668 Letter of Thanks to Capt. Forbes, signed " Staunton. 

Lord Mayor of Dublin, April 34, 1S47 ; " framed. 

James F. Cotter. 

669 " Acorn's " Old Salt-house {v. No. 49=;) ; water-color. 

William H. Spiller. 

670 View of the Western side of Lincoln Street and of W^orcester 

Long Wharf, and other Channel Wharves on the South 
Cove, and a map of Boston, 1835, with the South Cove 



THE UPPER STORY. 73 

Viciv of the \Vester)i side of Li)icoIii Street — Coitiiiitcd. 

territory ; two lithographic piints in one frame, hv Peiulle- 
ton, after th'awings by P. P. F. Degrand, 1S35, '^^'' (l<-'pot 
accommodations of the Boston & Worcester and \Vestern 
raih"oads (the Boston <S: Albany Railroad). 

Josia!/ ^niiicy. 

671 Old Spinkt, made by Longman a: r>ro<lerip, 26 Clieap- 

side, London. ^Irs. Daniel 7'. / . Jliintoon. 

672 Fan Light of tlie front door of the honse of the Revs. John 

Mayo and Cotton Mather, in Middle (now Hanover) Street. 
(An electrotvpcd picture of the liouse, the gift of James 
PL Stark, is in a portfolio.) 

jSIrs. Elizabeth L. J\Icaris. 

673 Bottle made for Gardiner Greene in England, al)out iSoo. 

Ediviii F. Snozv. 

674 Shell fired at the Pinion forces at Washington, N. C, April 

2, 1S63 ; picked up by Albert K. Page. 44th Regiment 
Massachusetts Volunteers ; given bv his brotlier, 

LiiiceJ. Page. 

675 Carved Buffet, 200 years old, from a house on the corner 

of Vernon Place and Charter Street; still standing. 

Heirs of Josh It a Bennett. 

676 Warrant to execute Charles L, Jan. 30, 164S; signed m\- 

Oliver Cromwell and the other judges ; fac-simile litho- 
graphic print. Loan: Harrison Gray Otis. 

677 Swing-Sign of the Old Lm on the Pl\mouth Turnpike in 

Pembroke, iSoo. E. Ejtgenc Jiryant. 

678 Jail, on the corner of Charles and North Grove Streets. 

erected in 184S, from a design by Bryant; lithograph by 
Burtbrd, after a drawing by Billings. 

Loan: City of Boston. 

679 Boston Corn Exchange, instituted 1S55, with likeness of 

members ; lithograph by Daniels of a drawing by G. H. 
Creighton (with key). Loan: G. H. Creighton. 

680 Plan of the pews in the Hollis-Street Church. 1SS3. show- 

ing the pewholders in 1S34, the Rev. John Pierpont, 
pastor. ,/. P. Gordon. 

681 Deer-Island Almshouse, erected in 1S49; colored litho- 

graph, after drawing bv Joseph R. Richards. 1849. 

John P. Peed. 

682 Boston ; an engraving by Mottrani, after Hill ; published in 

London and New York, 1S57. 



74 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

683 Boston Harbor from Fort Hill; lithograph by Bufford, of 

Scott's Painting (No. 112). William H. Whitmore. 

684 A Correct Copy, executed by Thomas Starling, in London, 

in 1S33, of an Original Dutch Map, engraved in Amster- 
dam, in 1659, entitled: '•'Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae 
nee non partis Virginiae tabula, multis in locis emendata a 
Nicolao Joannis Visschero." Upon the lower margin, 
underneath this title, appears a colored print, entitled : 
"■ Nieuw Amsterdam, opt' Eylant Manhattans." 

Jonathan Preston. 

685 Map of Charlestown, iSiS. W. Payson Stearns. 

686 The Massachusetts Senate, In 18^6 ; litliograph pub- 

lished by J. M. Usher, from daguerreotypes by Winslow 
Homer. Charles S. Homer. 

687 Celebration Hymns, on the introduction of the Cochitu- 

ate water into Boston, 1S48, by William B. Tappan and 
George Russell. 

688 Sn.K banner carried by the Harrison Club in 1840. 

Estate of William Pray. 

68g George M. Thacher, formerly Danish Vice-Consul in 
Boston ; oil portrait. Peter Phachcr. 

690 Wooden Post, to contain a street lantern, once standing 
opposite No. I Staniford Street, the house of Dr. Salter. 

JSIiss EditJi A. Salter. 

5gi Yoke and irons of a bell in Christ Church. 

The Wardens and Vestry. 

692 Three Plaster Casts of the arms of Great Britain, one 

of them taken from a gun captured at Yorktown. 

Thomas W. Clarke. 

693 Carved Ship's Figure-head, made by Isaac Fowle, about 

1820. Mrs. Elizabeth P. Toung. 

694 Brick from the Auchmuty house, Roxbury. 

Elmer H. Croaker. 

695 Plan of Boston Common, showing the kind and position 

of each tree and every other object of importance, from a 
survey in 1851 ; original india-ink drawing by Nicoll. 

Loan : City of Bosto7t. 

697 Blind over the semicircular top of a window of Brattle- 

Square Church. James R. Wiggiti. 

698 Musket, belt, and cartridge-box carried in the War of 181 2 

by William M. Fernald. Albert H. Fernald. 



THE UPPER STORY. 75 

G99 vSiiovEi. with which was turned the lirst sod in the construc- 
tion of the Cochituate Aqueduct, usecl by the lion, josiali 
C^uincy, Jr., Mayor, Au;^. 20, 1846. 

Loan : City of Boston. 

700 Gun once belongint? to Jolm l>ro\vn. 

701 Cast of this inscription: " Opposite this spot was shetl the 

first blood of the American Revohition, March 5, 1770, 
placed in State Street by the Bostonian Society in 18S6." 

702 The "Coliseums" of 1869 and 1S72 ; four \iews ; <;iven 

by the architect, Francis Alien. 

703 Captain Nathanil::. IIowEANn, of Boston ; oil portrait. 

Hbcn Alcxaiider. 

704 Ship '-St. Peter," commanded by Captain Howland, 

sailing from Boston to St. Petersburg. 

Ebe>i Alexander. 

705 Three Pewter Plates, used in tlie Revolution by Hart- 

well, a colored soldier. George P. Smitli. 

706 Map of Roxbury in 1S49, F. C. Moseley. 

707 Interior of Theodore Parker's library. E. G. Lncas. 

708 Photograph of the second Board of Trustees of the Cit\- 

Hospital, 1865. B. II. Coolidge. 

709 Encampment of the New England Guards at Round Hill, 

Northampton, July, 1S40. James L. Whitney. 

710 Correct ]Map of the Coast of New England, 1731. 

Job A. Turner. 

712 View of Boston, from East Boston, 1848; engraving by 

Burton, from a drawing by E. Whilefield T. S. Nickerson. 

713 Plan of the survey of the Boston & Providence Railroad, by 

James Hay ward, 1S28. 

714 Boston; photograph of an engraving by Willard and Barber, 

from the south-west, near the intersection of the Provi- 
dence and Worcester Railroads. A. A. Folsoni. 

-lie. The City PIall, 186^ ; lithograph bv Powers <S: Co. 

^ ' ' W. H. Whitmore. 

716 A South-east view of Boston ; copy of an engraving, 1743^ 

dedicated to Peter Faneuil. " Josiah ."Onincy.Jr. 

717 Foot vStove used in the last century. Miss Ably L. Peirce. 

718 Door Handle from a house in Billerica, 200 years ohl. 

sliowing the primitive New England work in iron. 

George JI. Whitman. 

719 Spinning-wheel for ilax. Loan: .S'. P. G. \\ illentl. 



^6 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

720 Ship " Spermo," belonging to Josiah Bradlee, tiding out 

whales in the Pacific Ocean, 1S22 ; oil painting. 

Loan : Frederick H. Bradlee. 

721 The same ship, on a whaling voyage in the Pacific Ocean, 

1832. Loan: JFrederlck II, Bradlee. 

722 BosTOX Light, 1S40, looking east antl west; two crayon 

drawings Idv R. P. Mallory. R. P. Mallory. 

723 View of the •■' Old Corner Book Store ; " wood-cut. 

Loan : William H. Dciuict. 

724 Lock and Coffee-mill from house No. 23 Unity -Street, 

built about 171 i. The Misses LcacJi. 

']2^-']2^ Thirtv-five photographic representations of bas-relief 
carvings upon tlie ancient stalls, or choir seats, of St. 
Botolph's Church, Boston, England, attributed to the monks 
in the thirteenth century ; specified as follows : The 
early English Rose ; a couchant Buck ; a double-headed 
Eagle ; an Eagle with its head turned ; the Grifiin ; Clowns 
playing with Kittens ; a foliated design ; a Bear Bait ; 
Eagles picking their claws ; Head with curled beard ; a 
Man devoured by Wolves ; a Lion and Dragon fighting ; 
a Man attacking a Lion ; Killing the Griffin ; Bust of a 
Qiieen ; The Schoolmaster ; a Man and Woman fighting ; 
a Mermaid piping to a boat's crew ; a Fox running away 
with the Geese; a Monster with cloven feet and the head 
of a man; the Portcullis of the Castle; a tilting helm in 
profile; Grotesque Head; a Winged Dragon ; a Dragon 
and Griffin in amiable converse ; Killing the Unicorn ; a 
foliated design ; a Wolf as priest, Reynard peeping in ; 
Monkey with bottle ; a Knight fully armed, charging a 
Wyvern with his lance ; two Swans, the heads forming a 
ducal coronet ; a feat of Horsemanship — bending behind 
to pick up the horseshoe ; the Pillar of Flagellation ; a 
Hunt with Bow and Arrow ; a Burlesque upon organ- 
playing. 

728 Photographic Views of Boston, England, specified as 
follows : View of Boston Church from the West ; the 
Church from the Cattle Market ; general view showing 
Lincoln and Lindsaj' Bank, White Hart Hotel, and build- 
ing of the Liberal Club ; the Pulpit in Boston Church, 
from which Rev. John Cotton preached ; the Memorial in 
Boston Church to the late Professor Conington; the 
Church, and Herbert Ingram Monument; Inscription 
upon the Memorial Brass in Boston Cliurch, commemora- 
tive of the Rev. John Cotton ; South Porch and Cotton 



THE UrriCR STORY. -j-j 

PhotograpJiic Vicxvs — Coiitiiiiied. 

Chapel of Boston Clnirch; the Sessions House ; View of 
old Wind, Corn, and Flower Mills ; the In^jelow House ; the 
Church House; the Cottage Hospital; Old Flemish 
House after its restoration ; Old Flemish House before 
its restoration ; the l^aptist Chapel ; another view of the 
Cottage Hospital; Onrton Hall; the Grammar School; 
View of tlie site of tlie new Dock ; View of Skirheck 
Church, Lincolnshire. 

729 Two vStekl-plate Engra\'i\gs, entitled: '-Boston, 

Lincolnshire," framed together. 

730 Copper-plate Engraving, entitled: "(juildhall. Boston," 

by R. Pollard, 1S19. 

731 Copper-plate Engraving, entitled : '• North-east view of 

Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire," by ]>. Howlett, iSoo. 

732 Copper-plate view of Tattershall Castle, from another 

point, by B. Howlett, 1799. From No. 735, given by 

The Mayor and Corporation of Boston^ Itngland. 

733 William Bedford, Mayor of Boston, England, 1SS3 and 

1890; photograph in regalia as head of the Corporation. 

M illiani Jietiford. 

734 Four Photographic Reproductions, within one frame, of 

views of the Borough of Boston, England, taken i:i 1SS4, 
specified as follows : A reproduction of a rare copperplate 
engraving owned in Boston, England, entitled: ''The 
South-east view of Boston, in the Countv of Lincoln, i 750 : 
To the Right Worshipful the ALiyor and Corporation of 
Boston in Lincolnshire, this Prospect is gratefidly In- 
scribed, by their most obliged. Humble Servant, Nathan 
Drake." A panoramic view of the borough of Boston, 
Lincolnshire, taken in 1SS4. A reproduction of an old 
copperplate view showing the water-front of Boston, 
Lincolnshire, at an early period, with IJoston Church in 
the background. A view of the water-side of Boston, 
Lincolnshire, taken in 1S84. Alexander Moscley. 

735 Water-color Drawing, by Worth, in 1S84, of Shodfriars' 

Hall, the ancient building standing on South Street, 
Boston, Lincolnshire, England, supposed to have lieen 
erected by Flemish merchants. Alexander Moscley. 

736 St. Kotolph's Church, l>oston. England, from an original 

engraving, presented to Mrs. Watson by J. Noble, ^ia_\or 
of Boston. ; heliotvpe leproduction framed. 

William II. Whitmore. 



78 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

737 Resolutions of sympathy with the citizens of Boston after 

the Great Fire of 1872, passed by the Borough of Birming- 
ham, England, signed by Ambrose Biggs, mayor; framed. 

Loan : City of Boston. 

738 View of Boston from Telegraph Hill, South Boston; litho- 

graph by Tappan & Bradford, after Spindler. 

739 Souvenir of Kossuth's visit to Boston, 1S51-52; water-color 

drawing of a newsboy, painting by Thomas G. Appleton. 

Nathan Appleton. 

740 John Avek^-, First Secretary of State of Massachusetts, 

17S0-1S06; copy of an oil portrait. John E. Safiborn. 

741-742 Missionary Packet, " Morning Star ; " two lithographs 
by Butibrd, after Drew. George H. JVhitmai/. 

743 Boston after the Great Fire, 1S73 ; supplement, to " Harper's 

Weekly," Dec. 14, 1S73 ; framed. Mrs. Susan /i. Kidder. 

744 Abraiia?>i Lincoln, the last photograph taken, on the bal- 

cony of the White House, March 6, 186^, by H. 1". 
Warren. H. F. Warren. 

745 Remarks on President Jackson's last annual address, by a 

correspondent of the London Weeklv Despatch : framed 
broadside. Thomas F. Hinckley. 

746 Statement of the expenses of the Town of Boston, from 

May, 17S3, to May, 1784, $71,491 ; amount of County 
and Town tax, $135,820. Benjamin Sumner, collector ; 
framed broadside; no date. Edward J. Jones. 

747 Mirror from Governor Hutchinson's house in Milton, with 

heavy anticiue frame. Charles Brcck. 

748 Mahogany Carved Base to the pulpit of the Brattle-Square 

Church. J. Montgomery Sears. 

749 Fire-Bag of the Sutlblk Fire Society, marked "John Lam- 

son, 1816." Daniel S. Lamson. 

750 Model in wood of the mansion known as the Faneuil- 

Phillips House on Common, afterward Tremont, Street, 
opposite King's Chapel, built by an uncle (vf Peter Faneuil, 
occupied later by Governor Phillips. 

Loan: Mrs. Caroline M. Fitch. 

751-779 Portraits of the mayors of Boston from 1S22 to 1S94, 
inclusive; engravings, lithographs, and photographs; gifts 
and loans by the City of Boston and others. 



THE UPPER STOR\'. 79 

780 Fkagmicnt of the old Roman wall of London. 

yV/c Bosto)i III' raid. 

781-782 Two Silk Banners carried in the Presidential cam- 
paign of 1S44 by the Whig Chib of old Ward Foiu-. 

J Icnry S. Sliav:. 

783 Stone from the front of Hancock llonse. 

784 Cannon IjAI.l fired into the American camp at Cambridge 

during the Re\olution. Charles /J reel:. 

785 Another ball (bed by the British against Washington's 

intrcnchments on Dorchester Heights, i77v 

Jo/in Dodge. 

786 Granite Bali., with leaden spire attached, which sur- 

mounted one of the towers of the Triangular Warehouse, 
formerly standing at the head of what was in early times 
i<nown as " the Town Dock," in the vicinity of the jmo- 
ent Dock .Square, built in 16S0, taken ilown in 1824. 

Aiidrczv C. Slater., I^xccntor. 

787 President Madison's inaugural address, March 4, 1S09; 

framed broadside, printed on satin. 

William J\ Leggctf. 

788 Independence Hai.l, Philadelphia ; framed water-color by 

E. D. Lewis. 

789 Relic of the Great Fire, 1S72; molten parian, glass, etc., 

from the ruins of Daniel B. vStedman's crockery store, on 
Summer Street. Williavi C. Biirragc. 

790 Piece of iron from the ruins of the store cf Homer, J]ishop. 

& Co.. 113 Milk Street, bin-nt in the Great Fire. 

Willi a 7)1 C. Lazvre/ice. 

ygi Cabinet containing a piece of the organ-|5ipe of the Coli- 
seum ; a piece of shell iired from the "Merrimac" into a 
ca!)in of the '^ Minnesota ; " wood from the '•Constitu- 
tion," and other small articles. 

792 Carved representation of the Arms of the Painters' (iuild, 

of England, L-eland, and Scotland. 1755, which was 
brought to this country by Christopher Gore, afterwards 
Governor, and at one time hung upon a building in the 
present Scollav vSquare. Loan: C. Iloiry Adams. 

793 Part of the pulijit door of the .Second, or Xew Brick, 

Church, in Hanoxcr .Street, built 171Q. 

William W. Warren. 

794 Carved wooden pilaster from tlie front of the house occu- 

pied bv the Revs. John Mayo and Cotton Mather. 

Mrs. Elizabeth /.. ^feans. 



8o BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

795 Oi.D Scandinavian Ship's Bell, believed to have been 

cast in the province of Dalarne, in Sweden, and bearing 
the inscription in raised capital letters of Swedish script: 
" Till Horig Skeppct Patrioten." The dimensions of the 
bell are as follows : Circumference at top, i foot 65/^ 
inches; at centre, 3 feet ; at rim, 3 feet 7 inches; height, 
II 14 inches. Weight, 59 pounds. 

Loan : 77^6' U}iited States Govcrtunoit. 

796 Old Sign of G. Yujiker, "doctor" (with picture of a boot 

and shoe). 

797 Decoration representing the shield borne by the New Eng- 

land Guards, painted upon cloth, with their motto. 

The Ncxv England Guards' Association. 

798 Gilded hands of the clock on Boylston Market, the gift of 

Ward M. Boylston, 1809. JoJui D. W. French. 

700 The Hands of the clock on Hollis-Street Church. 

B. F. Merrill. 

800 Banneret of white silk, borne by Edward Carncs in the 
procession of Vv'elcome to Washington in 1789. 

George W. Forristall. 

Soi Yane and Finials of Hollis-Street Church. 

Robert B. BrigJiam. 

802 Baluster from the gallery at tlie head of the staircase of 

the Hancock House" "' B. Joy Jeff rics, M.D. 

803 Piece of the lightning-rod erected on the Hancock House 

by Benjamin Franklin; the lantern-irons, door-lock, steel- 
yards, marble slab, etc., from the Hancock House. 

Charles E. French. 

804 The Hanccck House: copperplate engraving ])y Diman, 

after a drawing bv J. Davis. Mrs. Rebecca D. Pratt. 

805 Iron vStanix-vrd upon v/hich swung the cockerel vane of 

the " Xcvs' Ihick" Church on Hanover Street, 1721-1S43 
{v. Case "G"). diaries W. Parsons. 

806 Drawing of the old chandelier in tiiis building; sketched 

from mem(jry l)y W. F. Durfee. 

807-811 Five views of Beacon Hill, as follows: 

1. Beacon Hil!. from 3,Iount Vernon Street, near the head 

of Hancock vStreet. 

2. l^cncon Hill, from the former site of the Reservoir, 

l)etwcen Har.cock and Temple Streets. 



THE UPPER STORV. 8i 

Five V/ezvs of Jicaroii 1 1 ill — t'ui/li n/irJ . 

3. Beacon Hill, with Mr. W'illiani riiiu^lon's lioiisc, from 

Bow do in Street. 

4. Beacon Hill, from Alouiit Wtuoii Street. 

^. Beacon Hill, from Derne Street. 

Colored lithos^raph i)rints l)\ lUifloid, after the original 
views drawn ami ent;ra\ed by I. R. Smith in iSi 1. 

J//,s-.v /i/iza .S'. ."-^i/ii/cy. 

812 Custom House, erected in i8.|S; steel en<4ra\ in^,^ hv Aieher, 

after Billings, 1S50. 

813 Letter from the Cincinnati Chamber of Connnerce to 

George C. Richardson, President of the l>oston Board of 
Trade, June 20, 1S65, thanking the Boston Board i'<>i- hos- 
pitality shown to the Boards of I'lade of the West ; 
framed. 

814 General Samuel M. Qluncv, when acting maNor of New 

Orleans; 1S66, photograph {v. No. 8). 

Iloiry P. Curtis. 

815 West Church, Cambridge Street; tonr photographic views. 

Grciiville II. A^orcross. 

816 George TH., 173S-1820; steel engraving by Ryland, after 

Ramsay's portrait. 

817 General LTlvsses S. Grant, 1S23-S5 ; photograph taken 

in the field at City Point, Va., March iq, 1S65, in H. V. 
Warren. //. /\ IWincii. 

818 Thomas Edward Chickerixc;, 1824-71; son of No. 32; 

Colonel of the 41st Regiment. Mas.sachnselts Volunteers; 
framed photograph. Mrs. Wiiliaiii ]]'. Clapp. 

8ig New England GifAitixs, in the uniform of 1819, a litho- 
graph certificate by Stratton, after .Smith. 

Charles Z. Bancroft. 

820 View of Boston from Dorchester Heights; engraving by 

Havel I, from his painting. William //. Wliitniorc. 

821 Departure of the Pilgrims from Holland; artist's proof ; en- 

graving signed : " Charles Lncv, 1847." ,/• KoopDiaii. 

822 Certificate of membership of Albert A. Folsom in the Bos- 

ton Light Infantry, 18^7 ; colored lithograph ; trained. 

Albert A. Fulso»i. 

823 (Gamaliel Bailey, 1S07-59; editor of the "National Era," 

in which "• Uncle Tom's Cabin " was originally jinblishcd ; 
lithograph. W'illiani //. 117/ it more. 



82 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

824 Cautridge-rox used in the War of 1S12. 

William P. S/irevc. 

825 Letter sent l)y balloon from Paris duriiiy; the Siege, Dec. 

17, 1S70; framed. JVat/ian Appletoii. 

826 Last Words and dying speech of Levi Adams, executed 

for burglary, Oct. 31, 1773; framed broadside. 

827 Plan of the Old State House, second floor, showing the 

circular staircase, hall, and four anterooms adjoining, also 
representing in solid lines the original oak frame around 
the staircase opening, all of which indications were found 
in the restoration of 18S1. Williaui H. Whitmorc. 

828 Rev. George Richards, 1816-1S76; pastor of the Central 

Congregational Church, on Winter vStreet ; lithograph. 

John P. Reed. 

829 Proclamation of the Selectmen of Boston to the inhabitants 

that effectual measures be taken against infectious disease 
now prevalent in Philadelphia ; framed broadside. 

Ebeu Dorr. 

830 Fair for the building fund of the Young Men's Chiistian 

Association, in Music Hall, December, 1858; framed pho- 
tograph. 

831 Bill of John Jones against Thomas Edes, of Boston, for car- 

penter work, Aug. 27, 1763 ; framed autograph. 

832 Sir Moses Montefiore, Bart., presented to the City of Bos- 

ton liy Alfred A. and Kate Marcus on the ninety-ninth 
birthday of the venerable philanthropist; crayon portrait 
bust by Ray ner. Loan: The City of Boston. 

833 Tax-Warrant to the town of Stoughton, Nov. i, 1759; 

signed by Harrison Gray, Treasurer; framed broadside. 

Isaac Fetiuo. 

834 Paul Renere at the age of 67 ; photograph of a portrait 

painted in iSoi. 

835 Bill of Lading of the sloop " Greyhound" from Boston to 

Newberne, N. C, dated Jan. 30, 1709; framed autograph. 

T. T. Haiiffer. 

836 Ram's Horn in plaster from " Harris' Folly," a house in 

Pearl street, (^n the site of Nos. 100 to 108 ; one of many 
under tlie gable and towards the street. Nahuui Jones. 

837 Came fiom a piece of the oak frame of the Rev. Dr. Streetcr's 

church in Hanover Street, demolished in 1838; made liy 
Henry Gooding, and presented by his daughter, 

E. JcaiDicttc Gooding., AI. D. 



THE UPPER STORY. 83 

838 (JKXERAL Joseph W'aurex ; siiiall portrait bust painted on 

glass, iVanicd ; once owned hy Cliailottc Cushinan. 

^/rs. George IV. Catc. 

839 Cannon made of wood of the British nian-of-war " Somer- 

set," wrecked on Cape Cod, November, 1770. 

William T. CIu-^-.ocll. 

840 Xi;vv Engeand Weekly JouiiNAE, June 9, 1729; found in 

the house in Common Street where the Rev. Mather 
IJyles lived; framed broadside; another of Oct. 6, 17-7. 

William II. Kcin/ard. 

841 Thomas Melvilee; a {)rinted sketch of his life, as published 

in the "Columbian Sentinel," Oct. 30, 1S32; framed. 

^Irs. Nancv J/. Dozvi/cr. 

842 Laying the corner-stone of the Beacon Hill Reservoir; 

daguerreotype. Josiah }Qjtincy. 

843 Letter of William Cooper, town clerk of Boston, to the 

towns of Massachusetts, Sept. 12, 176S; printed broadside. 

844 Clearance of the schooner " Newburv " from Boston, April 

5, 1765; framed autograph of William SheaH'e, Deputy 
Collector. Loan : Seth JBryaJit. 

845 Corner of Washington and Summer .Streets; decorated for 

the 250th anniversary of the Ancient and Honorable Artil- 
lery Company, iSSS; framed photograph. A. SJntma}!. 

846 Plan of the Back Bay, showing public parks, with the system 

of streets and sewers proposed for its improvement, Feb. 8, 
1S77; Fuller & Whately, engineers. 

847 Plan of the proposed improvement of the I3ack Bay, j^ub- 

lished by the Park Commissioners, 1S79. 

848 Piece of palmetto wood sent from Charleston, S.C.,to Con- 

cord, on the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of 
Bunker Hill. Willi'am W. Whcildou. 

849 Boston Gazette, March 13, 1770, contairdng an account 

of the " Boston Massacre; " framed broadside. 

Mis. Sarah B . Jacobs. 

850 Tax-warrant to the town of Boston, July i, i794i signed 

by Thomas Davis, Treasurer; framed broadside. 

Jcroiiiah Coll // rii . 

851 "The Arctic Mocjn ; " a hektogra]ih newspaper, printeil in 

Grinnell Land, by the Greeley Exploration Party; No. i, 
Nov. 24, iSSi ; .said to be the only perfect copy; framed 
under glass. Frank N. Broxvncll. 

852 Ruins of the building on the corner of Bedford and Kingston 

Streets, burned Thanksgiving Day, 1S89; framed jihoto- 
graph. William Juyc. 



84 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

853 Framed Chart of the private sionals of the merchants of 

Boston. George O. Smith. 

854 .Spiral Carved Post from the belfry of Christ Church, Salem 

Street ; taken down during repaiis in 1S92; with a hand- 
wrought nail. J. Otis Wetherbee. 

855 Piece of oak from the frigate " Constitution." 

George II. II hitman. 

856 Franktjn Street in 1S60; framctl photograph. 

William W. R /wades. 



THE CURTIS COLLECTION. 

A Collection of framed photographs of streets, and of buildings, 
many now demolished, presented to the Society by Henry 
Pelhani Curtis. 

857 Grand Panoramic View of the east side of Washington 

Street, from the corner of State Street to No. 3o6. 

858 Federal-Street Church (Rev. Dr. Channing's), 1809- 

1859. 

859 Ruins of the Great Fire ; panoramic view from Wasliing- 

ton Street. 

85o C. II. Badger's House, in Prince Street. 

861 General Gage's House, in Hull Street, Copp's Hill. 

862 The Old Elm, on the Common. 

863 The Thoreau House, in Prince Street, 1725. 

864 The Stoddard House, in Prince Street; Major Pitcairn is 

said to have died here of wounds received at Bunker Hill. 

865 John B. Wells' House, on the corner of Charter and 

Foster Streets. 

866 Faneuil Hall Sqjltare. 

867 The Hichborn House, in North Street, near North Square. 

868-869 The Caleb Loring House, in Somerset Street, front- 
ing Pemberton Square, 1S03-53. (3.) 

870 Franklin Street, in winter. 

871 The Baldwin-Place Baptist Church. 

872-873 Old St. Mary's Church, in Endicott Street. (2.) 

874 The Uxion Congregational Church (Rev. Dr. Nehemiah 
Adams), corner of Essex Street and Chauncy Place, 
1S19. 



THE UPPER STORY. 85 

Curtis Collection — Continued. 

875 TiiK Sta'ik I lousii, decorated for the Centennial Celebra- 

tion in 1S76. 

876 BoYLsi'ox Street, shovvini^ Trcmont and W'asliin^^ton 

Streets. 

877 Robert Newman's House, on the corner of vSaleni and 

Sheafe Streets. 

878 Temple Place, from soutliwest corner of Treniont Stieet. 

879 Green-vStreet Congregational Church, 1826, Rev. Will- 

iam Jenks, D.D., pastor; later the Church of the Advent, 
Rev. W^illiam Coggswell, D.D., rector. 

880 Jewish Synagogue, Warrenton Street, erected in 1S51. 

881 The Corner of Lowell and iMinot Streets, Putnam's Phar- 

macy. 

882 The Old City Hotel, below the Brattle-Scjuare Church, 

on Brattle Street. 

883 Old Scollay's Building, from an attic window at the 

West End of Tremont Row. 

884 Pine-Street Congregational Church, 1837. 

885 The Wells House, in Salem Street, 1680. 

886 The Tremere House, in North Street. 

887 The PIartt House, Hull Street; here lived Hartt, who 

built the " Constitution." 

888 The Sheaf House, on the corner of Columbia and Es.sex 

Streets. 

889 Ax Old House in North Street. 

8go The British Hosplial, Prince .Street, where the wounded 
were carried from Bunker Hill. 

891 No. S3 Charter Street, razed in 1885. 

892 The Old Boston .Stone, in Maishall's Lane. 

893 Christ Church, Salem Street, in 1733. 

894 The .Seamen's Bethel, North vS(|uare, where '• lather 

Taylor" preached. 

895 Old Chauncy Place, from the Mechanics' Buililing, on 

the corner of Bedford .Street. 

896 The Old South Mtieting-House, with the Post-Oflice 

addition made by the United States Government after the 
Great Fire. 



86 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

Curiis Collectlo7i — Continued. 

897 Warren-Street Chapel, 1835, in Wanenton Street, the 
Rev. Charles F. Barnard, pastor. 

8g8 Old Somerset Club House, and the residence of J. L. 
Gardner, Beacon Street. 

899 Court Sc^jliare ; east sitle, looking north. 

900 Old Brimmer House, on the west side of Charles Street. 

near Beacon. 

901 Old West Street, looking towards Bedford .SLrcct. 

902 Bulfinch-Street Church, originally the Central Univer- 

salist Church, 1823. 

903 Corner of Temple Place and Tremont Street. 

904 Stores and Offices on the corner of Washington and 

Court Streets; razed in 1S89. 

905 A View of Somerset Street. 

go6 Mount Vernon Street, back of the State House. 

907 Old vSouth Meeting-House ; interior view. 

go8 The North-east Corner of Mount Vernon and Temple 
Streets. 

909 The Second Universalist Church, from front of the 

City Hall. 

910 Phillips-Street Church. 

gii The Corner of Milk and Washington Streets. 

912 Stores and Offices on the corner of Court and Washing- 

ton Streets; razed in 18S9. 

913 Brattle-Sqijare Church ; exterior and interior views. 

914 Hollis-Street Church, from an opposite window. 

915 The First Church, in Chauncy Place. 

916 Selwyn's Theatre ; burnt in 1S71. 

917 SCOLLAY Sct-UARE. 

918 Thk Paddock Elms and Park-Street Church. 

919 Hulk of Pilgrim ship " Sparrowhawk," exhibited on Bos- 

ton Common in 1865. 

920 Hollis-Street Church, 1S10-S5. 

921 Old Trinity Church, 1S28-73 ; oblique view, towards 

Washington Street. 

922 Congress and State Streets, diagonally from Exchange 

Street. 



TlII^: Uri'KR STORV. 87 

Cur/ is Collection — Co)itiiiitcd. 

923 vSr. Stephen's Chapki,, on Purchase Street, erected by tlie 

Hon. William Appleton ; ile.stroyed by the Great Fire. 

924 The North Side of Summer Street, opposite Kingston, 

after the Great Fire. 

925 Old Water Street, the north-east corner, before the 

widening of Washington Street. 

926 The Rear of the vState House, with Somerset-Street Cluirch 

and the Bell estate. 

927 The Albion, on the corner of Beacon and Tremont Streets ; 

razed in 1SS7. 

928 Summer Street, from Washington Street to " Church 

Green," 1S71 ; two views. 

929 The Old Kuhn House, on the corner ol" Beacon and 

Charles Streets; razed in 1SS9. 

930 School-Street Block, below the City Hall. 

931 Brattle-Sc^uare Church ; interior. 

932 West Street, from a stereopticon view. 

933 Essex .Street, between Chauncy and Kingston Streets, 

from the corner of Edinboro' Street. 

934 South Street, west side, opposite Linwooil Place. 

935 O1.V) Exeter Place, from Chauncy Place, later Chauncy 

Street. 

936 The Old Latin and English High School-House, in 

Bedford Street, iS44-79. 

937 The Old Masonic Temple, with a view of Temple Place. 

938 Eliot Street, corner of Washington Street. 

939 Park Street, from Park-Street Church. 

940 The Old Corner Bookstore, on the corner of School 

and Washington Streets. 

941 The Residence of the Hon. Edward Everett and Daniel 

Denny, on Summer Street, at the time of removal. 

942 Copy of an old daguerreotype representing Court .Street to 

the Old State House, from the roof of Scollay's Building, 
showing on the right the parsonage of l?rattle-Square 
Church, the old tower of the Merchants' Excliange, with 
Fort Hill in tlie right background. 

943 The Old Adams House, in W^ashington Street, 1846. 

944 Colonnade Row, Tremont Street, from the Common, 



88 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

Curtis Collcctio7i — Continued. 

945 Washington Street, at Franklin Street, looking south. 

946 Essex Street, the north side, from Harrison Avenue. 

947 Hanover Street, near Portland Street. 

948 Gleasox's Publishing Hall and Treniont Temple, from 

the Paddock Elms. 

949 The Boston Daily Advertiser building, on Court Street, 

opposte Court vSquare, 1866-S3 ; reiirected in Lynn. 

950 School vStreet, from Washington Street. 

951 Franklin Street, north side, from the middle of the Cres- 

cent. 

952 Franklin Street, north side, from lower end of the Cres- 

cent. 

953 Franklin Street, south side, showing the old archway 

and Crescent, 181^5. 

954 Court Sqltare, east side, looking south from Court Street. 

955 C. B. vSiMMONs' House, in Ann Street, 1S14, the site of 

-Oak Hall." 

956 The Merchants' Exchange, in State Street. 

957 The Old Custom House, in Custom House Street. 

958 The Corner of State and Kilby streets; razed in 1S89. 

959 vScollay's Building; razed in 1S72. 

960 The Old Part of the Wells House, in Salem Street. 

961 Washington Street, looking south, from the corner of 

Milk Street, before the erection of the " Transcript " Build- 
ing. 

962 Franklin .Street, north side, from lower end of the Cres- 

cent. 

963 Oliver Eldredge's House, in Otis Place. 

964 Franklin Street, Cathedral of the Holy Cross, and the 

spire of Federal-.Street Church. 

965 New vSoutii Churc-h, Church Green, 1S14-68. 

966 Hollis-Street Church; interior. 

967 Oli> South Meeting-House; interior. 

968 NiLEs' Block, in School Street. 

969 Mount Vernon Street, in the rear of the State House, 

between Hancock and Temple Streets. 



THE UPrER STORY. 89 

Curtis Collection — Continued. 

970 Templk Stkeht, l)etvvccn Dcrncaiul Mount Vernon Streets. 

971 Temple vStkeet, between Mt. Vernon and Derne Streets. 

972 Old Cathedral Block, lower end of Franklin .Street 

Crescent. 

973 FuANKLiN Street, from opposite Old Franklin Printino- 

House. 

974 Franklin Street Crescent, with trees, ami the Old Cathe- 

dral of Holy Cross. 

975 The Gardner House, in Franklin .Street, 18S5. 

976 Tremont Street and .Scollay .Square, from the south 

corner of Tremont .Street and School Street; morning- 
view. 

977 Somerset Street; morning view, 1S5S. 

978 The Old National Theatre, on the corner of Portland 

and Travers Streets, 1 82 3-63. 

979 The Old Leather and Feather Warehouse, 16S0-1S60. 

980 Mt. Vernon StrilET, corner of Joy Street ; the residence 

of Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis. 

g8i The Old Beacon-Hill Reservohj, north-east corner, 
1848-S3 ; four views. 

982 The Old Reservoir, north-east corner, 1S48-83. 

983 George Ticknor's House, on the corner of l^irk and 

Beacon .Streets; erected by Thomas Amorv in 1806. 

984 Park .Street, showing Dr. John C. Warren's house and 

Park-Street Church. 

985 Tup: Corner of Franklin and Devonshire Streets, toward 

the Old State House. 

986 The PIoward Athen.*;um and head of Hanover .Street, from 

Ploward Street, 1859. 

987 The Old Perkins House, on the corner of Joy and Mt. 

Vernon Streets, 1S55. 

988 Chelsea Dye PIouse, Old Ilewes House, 1656-1870. 

989 Washington Street, witii the Old South Meeting-PIousc, 

from the Herald Building. 

990 The Sheaf House, corner of Columbia and Essex .Streets. 

991 Old Horticultural PIall and the Parker IPjuse, from the 

front of City PLall. 



90 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

Curtis Collcctio^t — Contimicd. 

992 Otis Place, Winthrop Place ; the old Blake and Bancroft 

Houses. 

993 Old Federal-Street Church, toward Milk Street, 

1809-59. 

994 Copeland's Confectionery Store, east side of Court 

Street, between Brattle and Hanover Streets. 

995 The Public Garden, looking towards the State House, 

1S60. 

996 Church Green, toward Winthrop Place. 

997 The Corner of State and Congress Streets, New England 

Mutual Life Insurance Company, before the Great Fire. 

998 Otis Place, left hand, towards Summer Street. 

999 Spruce Street, from the Common. 

1000 The Residences of J. S. Lovering and H. A. Pierce, 46 
and 47 Beacon Street. 

looi The Residences of Peter Parker and Martin Brimmer, 
48 and 49 Beacon Street. 

1002 Mt. Vernon Street, from Walnut Street. 

1003 'I'liK Sears House, on Beacon .Street, now the Somerset 

Club House. 

1004 The Central Congregational Church, in Winter 

Street, 1841-65. 

1005 Mt. Vernon and Joy Streets, west side. 

1006 Colonnade Row, looking north-east, from Tremont Street, 

Common side. 

1007 Trinity Church, south-west ; afternoon view. 

1008 Federal Street, from Federal Court, 1S5S. 

1009 The Cathedral of Holy Cross, Franklin Street. 

loio Horticultural Hall and Parker House, from the City 
Hall. 

loii Old Perkins House, in the rear of Mount Vernon Place 
and Joy Street. 

Id 2 The Residence of Samuel May, on Congress Street, in 
i860; destroyed by fire, 1873. 

1013 Winthrop Place, Summer Street, residence of Hollis H. 

Ilunnewell. 

1014 Paul Revere's House, North Square, 1660. 



THE UPPRR STORY. 91 

Curtis Collection — Continued. 

1015 The Old Wintiuiop House, on the corner of Trcmont 

and Boylston Streets. 

1016 Chauncv Street, from Exeter I'lace. 

1017 The Old Corner Bookstore, 171 2. 

1018 The New Post-Office, previous to the Great Fire, from 

the corner of Water and Devonshire Streets. 

1019 Beacon Street, corner of vSpruce Street. 

1020-1021 Beacii-Street Cirirch, formerly Purchase-Street 
Congregational Church, Rev. J. T. Coolidge, on the 
corner of Beach Street and Harrison Avenue, 1846. (2.) 

1022 Church of the Saviour, the Rev. Robert C. Waterston, 

pastor, Bedford Street, 1S45 ; razed in 1S72. 

1023 The Corner of Milk and Washington Streets. 

1024 The Old Bromfield House, on Bromfield Street. 

1025 The Present Site of the old Stackpolc Estate, 1S60. 

1026 Summer Street, the residence of Daniel Webster. 

1027 India Wharf in 1S60. 

1028 The Masonic Temple, from the sidewalk on Boylston 

Street, front of the Hotel Pelham. 

1029 Franklin Street, from Devonshire Street. 

1030 Fort Hill, looking towards the Custom House. 

1031 Dr. Buckminster Brown's house, on Bowdoin Street, 

west side. 

1032 Otis Place, corner of the houses of Oliver EUhcdgc, 

Henry Cabot, and Hollis H. Hunnewell. 

1033 Franklin Street, south side, and the old Boston Libraiy, 

incorporated in 1794. 

1034 View of Boston, from Thomas Street, .South Boston, 1S5S. 

1035 Federal Street, near High Street, east from Federal 

Court. 

1036 Tremont and Eliot Streets, looking tow^ards the Com- 

mon, 1S60. 

1037 The Public Garden, corner of Charles and IJeacon 

Streets, 1S60. 

1038 The Evans House and Masonic Temple, from the Tre- 

mont-Street Mall. 

1039 The Hotel Pelham, before its removal, 1S69. 



92 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

Curtis Collectio7t — Continued. 

1040 The Puhlic Library and Hotel Pelham, east, from the 

Common. 

1041 The Old Boston and Providence Railroad Depot, in 

Park Square. 

1042 Interior of the Greenhouse, Public Garden. 

1043 The Old Greenhouse, in Charles Street. 

1044 Paul Revere's House, North Square, 1S91. 

1045 John Tappan's Residence, 30 Summer vStreet, corner of 

Arch Street. 

1046 The vSchool-House on Fort Hill ; eight views. 

1047 Fort PIill, central view. 

1048 The Sears Estate before it was occupied by the Somer- 

set Club, from Beacon-Street Mall. 

1049 The Old Boston and Providence Railroad Depot 

and Park-Square Corner. 

1050 Park-Street Church and the Paddock Elms, from St. 

Paul's Church. 

105 1 Tremont Street, from Court to Bromfield Street. 

1052 Tremont Street, from King's Chapel Burying-Ground 

to Park wStreet, l)efore the horse railway was built. 

1053 The V'iew^ down Park-Street Mall, from the right-hand 

balustrade of the State House. 

1054 Wendell Phillips' House, in Essex Street, fronting Har- 

rison Avenue, with a side view of Mr. Phillips on his 
doorstep. 

1055 Old Hancock House ; winter view, i860. 

1056 Dock vSquARE to Washington vStreet, 1S60. 

1057 Colonnade Row, corner of West Street. 
1058-1067 Ten Views from the cupola of the State House. 

1068 The Oi-d Elm on the Common, looking toward the Public 

Library. 

1069 Otis Place, residence of N. Ligersoll Bowditch and Oliver 

Eldredge. 

1070 Inauguration of the vStatue of Daniel Webster, vSept. 17, 

1S59. 

107 1 Park-Street Church and Mall, from the Common. 

1072 Beacon Hill Place, from the Swedenborgian Church, 

1859. 



THE urri'LR story. 93 

Curtis Collection — Continncd. 

1073 Park .Stijkkt, winter \ icw, iVoin 'rrcmont .Stirct. 

1074 Franki.ix SritKirr, south side, iS:;:; ; the IJostoii Lihrarv. 

1075 The ITotki, Pkmiam, 1S57 ; tlie liisl buihliiii;- erected on 

this continent as a family iioteh 

1076 Old IIavmakk!';!' Sc^i'Akic, lo()kin<^ north. 

1077 Pemiucuton' vSciiiAKE in 1860, lookinj;- north. 

1078 Beacon Strickt, tVoni Joy Street to Hancock A\enue. 

1079 View, east, on I>eacon vStreet, opposite the Public GarLlen. 

1080 Bi{ATTr.E-Sci_UARic Ciihrcii, diagonally iVom tlie (^uincy 

House. 

1081 Pitts-Street Chapel, Rev. Dr. Tuckcrnian, pastor, 1S36. 

1082 The '^ CocKicuEL Church," Hanover Street, near Rich- 

mond vStreet, 1S45. 

1083 The Christian Church, in Tyler Street, corner of Knee- 

land Street. 

1084 Holy Trinity Church, in SutTolk Street, 1S43. 

1085 The Old House in Union Street. 

1086 An Old Building occupied by S. S. Pierce & Co., 

corner of Tremont and Court .Streets ; ra/.ed in 18S3 ; it 
had a marble tablet on Court Street, commemorating its 
occupancv 1)\' Washington in u/Si;, inserted by 'i'homas 
B. Curtis". 

1087 A Winter View of the Old City Hall. 

1088 The Old City Hall, about 1S60-62 ; occui)ied from 1822 

to 1S62, except from 1S30-41. 

1089 Residence of Dr. O. W. Holmes, 296 Peacon Street. 

1090 BowDOiN Street and P)eacon Hill Place. 

1091 Mt. Vernon and Beacon Streets. 

1092 Mt. Vernon Street, near Beacon Street. 

1093 Beacon and Bowdoin .Streets. 



1094 Joy's Building, Washington Street, iS8o. 

logs Concert Hall, corner Court and Hano\er Streets, 183^. 

Mrs. n. />'. Jacobs. 

1096 The First Chuhcii, the building on Washington Street, 
near State Street, know^n as the '' Old Brick." 

7Vio?nas Mi/n/s. 



94 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

1097 BovLSTON Market, 1S09-S7. Jonathan French. 

1098-iiog Twelve Heliotvpr Engra\'ings of old Boston 
buildings; printed from sketches by George R. Tolman. 

Curtis G?iiJJ. 

iiio The Residence of Sannicl ITainnioiul, at l!ie corner of 
Somerset and Allston Streets, iSoS-60. 

Samuel H. RnsscU . 

mi Pemberton Square, a northwest view, 1SS5. 

William H. JVhit/norc. 

1 1 12 Bunker IIiel Monument. 

1 113 Part of the Old Trail from Boston to Plymouth, 

through West Roxbury Park, Augustus Parker. 

1114 The Portuguese Settlement on Long Island, Boston 

Harbor, removed by order of the City in 1SS7. 

1115 Hotel Pelham, August 35, 1S69, when, "by agreement 

between the City of Boston and Dr. Dix, it was moved 
westward, together with the vaulted sidewalk, on the line 
of Boylston Street, 13 feet 10 inches, in six days. The 
weight was estimated at 5,000 tons. The moving was 
successfully accomplished, and was said by General Ben- 
ham, of the United States Army, to be one of the great- 
est feats of modern engineering." John H. Dix^ JSI.D. 

1 1 16 House of John Mayo and Cotton Mather, erected 1656; 

electrotype. James H. Stark. 

1 1 17 Chelsea Dye PIouse Office, on Washington Street. 

Tho7nas C. De Carteret. 

in8 The Eliot School-House, established in 1713; erected 
in North Bennet Street in 1S3S. 

George O. Carpenter . 

1 1 19 Beacon Hill Reservoir. 

1 120 No. 37 vSoMERSET Street; raz.ed in 18S5 ; occupied by 

Daniel Webster, Abbott Lawrence, and others ; now 
pai't of the site of the Court-House. 

1121 Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, 

50 and 52 State vStreet ; taken down, 1SS4. 

1122 Hollis-Street Church; interior. E. T. Russell. 

1123 Residence of Jonathan Harris, iSoo, corner of High and 

Purchase Streets. 

1 124 Christ Church, Salem Street, 1S60. 

1125 Thinity Church, after the Great Fire. 

1126 RicsiDENCE of Daniel Weld, Boston Neck. 



THE UPPER STORY. 



95 



1127 P>ROOKHANK, lesidciicc of S. E. Sawyer, (jlouccster ; built 

in I 7H* 

1128 WiNTiiHOP Hoi'SE, corner of IJo} l.ston and Trcnionl 

Streets, 1845; destroyed by lire, 1864. Freemason Hall, 
occupied iSs'y-iSu.j. Hci/rv J. rarker. 

1129 Photograph of the OtHccrs and .Sailors of the l^ussian 

Squadron \isilint^ lioston in 1864, I". W. Lincoln, Jr., 
Alayor. 

1 130 The Raymond and Ticknor Houses, corner of ik-acon and 

Park Streets, Cahot and C//aiidIcr. 

1131 A. French & Company, corner of Milk and Battery- 

march Streets, 1873. 

1132 Thi: Old City Hall; winter view, i860. 

1 133 The First Church, fourth ediike, Chauncv Place, 1808- 

1871. 

1 134 The Winthrop House, corner of Boylston antl Tremont 

Streets. 

1135 Balloon view of Boston ; Kin;:^ and Allen, anonauts. 

George O. Carpenter. 

1136 The Corner of Hollis and Tremont Streets, 1S68. 

Rev. Caleb D. Bradlec. 

1137 The "Crystal Palace," Lincoln .Street; razed in 1S85. 

1138 Birth-place of General Warren, Roxl)urv, 1720-18.16. 

R. Alexander. 

1139-1142 Pemberton ScyiJARE, four views, 1885. 

1 143 American LIouse, 1S60, Hanover .Stieet. 

1 144 Somerset-Street Baptist Church, five views in one 

frame. W/Hi'ani G. J^res/'>u. 

1 145 View of Boston, from East Boston wharves, 1848; i)ho- 

tograph after ens^raviny. Henry (/'. Da)i/eU. 

1 146 Tremont House, on Beacon and Tremont .Streets, erected 

in 1828, showing the projected cupola, which was never 
placed upon the building. Curtis Guild. 

1147 Avon Place, residence of .Samuel pjiatllee. 

A'.-z'. Caleb D. Bradlec. 

1148 Devonshire Street, after the (ireat Fire. 

1149 Corner of Siunnier and High .Streets, after the (xrcat Fire. 

1150 Corner of Commercial and Fleet .Streets; razed in 18S6. 

Braj/cis II. Mauuiz/o'. 



96 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

1151-1153 Residence of Gardiner Greene; 3 views; photo- 
graphs of drawhigs. ]\Irs. James S. Aniory. 

1 154 The Massachusetts TIospitae Life Insurance Com- 

pany's Building. 

1155 Residence of Thomas Melville, taken in 1S32, showing a 

portion of Green Street. Mrs. Nancy J/. Doivner. 

1156 Pemuerton Square; north-east view, 1SS5. 

1157 Oi.D Washington Street, Old South Church. 

1158-1159 Headqj.tarters of Lord Percy at the time of the 
battle of Lexington, corner of Columl)ia and Essex 
vStreets ; 3 views. John J)/. Little. 

1160 IIollis-Street Church; interior. 

1 161 Exchange Coffee-House, 1S08-1S1S, used by the Ma- 

sonic fraternity, 1S17-1S, from a wood-cut by Abel 
Bowen. Henry J- Parker. 

1162-11G6 The State House; 5 views: the Exterior, Doric 
Hall, Governor's Room, State Library, Council Cham- 
ber. Edxvard J. Jones. 

1167 The First Church, 1713-1S0S; on the site of the Rogers 

Building. jMarti)i P. Kennard. 

1 168 Old Head House, corner of Tremont and Boylston 

Streets; site of the Masonic Temple, 1763-1S40; re- 
movetl to Pond Street. Henry J. Parker. 

ii6g Ki\(;'s Head Tavern, 1660-1870, corner of Ann and 
Lewis Streets. P. U . Hooper. 

1170 Certificate of Lt. Samuel Armstrong as a member of the 

Society of the Cincinnati ; signed by George Wash- 
ington, President, in 1 7S4 ; countersigned by II. Knox, 
Secretary. £). H. Coolidge. 

1171 Commission of Samuel Armstrong as Lieutenant in the 

Fourth Regiment of Infantry, U. S. Arm}' ; signed by 
James Madison ; countersigned by James Monroe, iSi^- 

D. H. Coolidge. 

1172 Indented Sailing Permit of brig "Herald;" signed by 

Andrew Jackson, 1836. D. H. Coolidge. 



The Shipping List, from 1S43 to 1SS5; forty-eight bound vol- 
umes. Hugh O' Brief/. 

Boston Daily Advertiser, from 1S64 to 1SS2 ; 38 volumes; 
bequeathed to the Society by Edxvin p. Waters. 

Evening Traveller, 1S56; Daily Advertiser, 18^6. 

Arthur //. Nichols, M.D, 



THI<: UPPER STORY. 97 

MISCELLANEOUS VIEWS, MAPS, PLANS, BROAD- 
SIDES, PORTRAITS AND AUTOGRAPHS, CON- 
TAINED IN PORTFOLIOS IN THE CLERKS OFFICE. 

Block on Mount Vernon vStrect, back of the vStale House; re- 
moved in 1SS9. 

Bkattle-Soltare Church ; seven views. 

Washington Street, nearly opposite Water Stieet. 

The Hayward Block and Chickering's Warerooms, destroyed 
by fire 1 87 1. 

Somerset Street ; six views of houses, removed for the new 
Court House. 

Court Street, corner of Washington Street; razed in 1S89. 

St. Mary's Church ; ibur views. 

The Ticknor Mansion, Park Street. 

The Daniel Vose House, Milton Lower Mills. 

The Exchange Block, corner of State and Congress Streets, 
demolished in 1S89. 

The Boylston Market, corner of Wash.ington and Bovlston 
Streets, 1SS7. 

The Gallop House ; ten photographs of old North End build- 
ings, decorated for the encampment of the Grand Army in 
1S90. 

Plan of Boston, from an acturd siuvey, 1>y Osgood Carleton, 
1796; photograph. William JL W/iiti)iore. 

Point of Pines, Chelsea Beach ; colored lithograph. 

William H. W/iltniorc. 
West View of the Old Feather House ; wood-cut. 

Gate of Mr. Auburn Cemetery; lithograph by Pendleton. 

William //. Whltmure. 

Nine photographic views of public institutions. 

The Departvjeiit of Public Institutions. 

Concert Hall, on the corner of Court and Hanover Streets; 
photographic reproduction. Henry J. Parker. 

Bunker Hill Monument and the processit^n of June 17, 1S43; 
lithograph by 'I'hayer. Samuel S. Ska-v. 

The Old South Meeting-House ; two etchings of pictures 
in the possession of Abbott Lawrence. Ilanillton A. JIlll. 

Long Wharf before Atlantic Avenue was cut through ; photo- 
graph. 



98 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

The Franklin Statue, in winter; photograph. 

James \V. Black. 

The WiNTHROP House, Tremont Street; photographic repro- 
duction. Henry J. Parker. 

The Old Custom House ; photograph. George W. Matitider. 

The Landing of British troops in 176S ; wood-cut. 

The Body of Charles Sumner lying in state in Doric Hall, State 
House, March i^, 1S74; photograph. Hamiltou A. Hill. 

The Merchants' Exchange ; interior; two photographs. 

Hatnilton A. Hill. 
The Latin and English High School-House ; heliotype. 

Brattle-Sqitare Church ; two photographs of the interior. 

Mrs. George Oxiiard. 

" Labor, Dependence, and the Fine xA.rts," and " Science control- 
ling Electricity and Steam ; " two photographs of a design 
by French for the Post-Office Building. 

Joseph G. Clippies. 

Harrisox-Soliare Church, Dorchester ; photograph. 

Rev. Caleb D . Bradlec. 

Old Masonic Hall, the United States Court House, on Tremont 
Street, in process of alteration ; photograph. 

The Weld Estate. 

Thorndike Hall, Summer Street ; photograph. 

Henry J. Parker. 

View from Pemberton Hill, 1S26; photograph of an engraving. 

The Birthplace of John Qiiincy Adams, in Qiiincy ; two litho- 
graphic views. Charles H. Wise. 

" The Crystal Palace," Lincoln Street, 1SS5 ; photograph. 

James W. Black. 

Old Warren Engine No. i, Dudley Street, Roxbury ; photo- 
graphic reproduction. Thomas C. He Carteret. 

The Post-Office Building after the Great Fire of 1S72 ; two 
photographs. 

The Ladies' Fair for the Poor at Music Hall, 1S57 ; lithograph. 

William S, Appleton. 

The Ticknor House, corner of Park and Beacon Streets. 

Miss Anna S. Ticknor. 

The Great Organ in Music Hall ; photographs. 

Thomas C. He Carteret. 

The Common and State House ; engraving, after Billings. 

William //. Whit?nore. 



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99 



The Gkeat Fire of 1S72 ; the corner of Washington and Broni- 
fielcl Streets ; photograph. 

North View of King's Chapel ; engraving by Anchews. 

St. Botolph's Church, Boston, England ; heliotype of an en- 
graving. 

Boston Custom House ; engraving by Smirke, after Billings. 

The Miller Building, Federal Street, after the Wve of Decem- 
ber, 1879 ; heliotype. 

The Crispus Attucks Monument; photograph. 

Robert Kraus. 

The Old State House, from Washington Street, 1791, for the 

" Massachusetts Magazine ; " lithograph. 

The Building on the corner of Gibbs' Lane and Broad Street, 
1 89 1 ; photograph. W. B. Crocker. 

The Oldest Building on Fort Hill, built in 1710; a photograph 
taken in 1891. 

The Hancock House, from a print of 17S9; two photographs. 

No. 33 Vaughan Street, Portsmouth, N.H., where Jeremiah 
Mason and Daniel Webster lived ; photograph. 

Samuel Gray. 

View of Boston and South Boston Bridge; lithograph by Veroy, 
after Milbert ; published in Paris. 

New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute, Exhibi- 
tion Building ; heliotype. 

First Universalist Church, Roxbury ; photograph. 

Thomas C. De Carteret. 

Twenty-three Views of buildings burned in the Great Fire; 
photographs taken immediately afterwards. G. R. Taber. 

The Corner of Summer and Washington Streets after the Great 
Fire, and other photographic views of the hre ; panorama. 

JoJm P. Reed. 

Nassau PIall, corner of Washington and Common vStreets, 1858 ; 
photographic reproduction. tlenry J. Parker. 

^Masons' Hall, Ann Street, from iSoo to 181 7; photographic 
reproduction. I/e/ny J. Parker. 

The Old Building on the site of the '^Journal " Building, Wash- 
ington Street ; tive photographs from diilerent points. 

Edzcard S. Ritchie. 

The Beacon Monument, 1695-1790; five engravings. 

Williant W. Wheildon. 



lOo BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

The vSoLDiERs' Monument on the Common, 1S77; lithograph. 

The Room of the Panama Canal Company, at the Foreign Ex- 
hibition, 18S3 ; photograph. Nathan Appleton. 

The Vicinity of Boston, from Bunker Hill Monument, 18^7 ; en- 
graving by vSmillie. 

Boston Market, drawn by Thomas G. Appleton, when a boy. 

Nathan Appleton. 

The Latin School-House in School vStreet, from iSi3to 1S44; 
wood-cut. 

Ruins of the fort on Dorchester Heights ; wood-cut. 

The Old .State House, Washington-Street front, wood-cut and 
several other views. GrenvUle U. Norcross and others. 

The QuiNcy House ; wood-cut. 

The Old Warren House, Jamaica Plain ; wood-cut. 

The Suffolk-Street Chapel, 1840; lithograph. 

The Third Baptist Meeting-House, Charles Street ; wood- 
cut. 

The Fair of the Young Men's Christian Association in Music 
Hall, 1856; lithograph by BuMbrd. 

The Roger Williams House in Salem ; lithograph bv White- 
field. 

QuiNCY Market ; engraving by WagstatT and Andrews. 

Charles E. Clark, M.D. 

The Statue of Leif Ericson in Commonwealth Avenue; litho- 
graph. Nathan Appleton. 

The Hancock House ; an engraving published in London ; also 
an engraving by Ulman. 

Antique Boston; drawn by Graham, for '• Harper's Weekh," 
Sept. 35, 1880. 

The Church of The Messiah, Florence .Street ; lithograph bv 
Buflbrd. 

Federal-Street Church ; photographs of the exterior and in- 
terior. Nathan Appleton. 

Harvard College Buildings ; engraving. Charles Chaplin. 

Interior of Freeman-Place Chapel ; photograph. 

E. W. He-wins. 

Governor Hutchinson's House at Milton ; wood-cut. 

St. Augustine's Church and Cemetery, South Boston ; litho- 
graph. 



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Deliverance Parkman's House, Salem, built in 1670; taken 
down in 1S34; wood-cut; appended is an impression of 
the seal of the Prero<^ativc Court of the Archbishop of 
Canterbury, 1828. 

The Marshfieed Club ; anniversary of 18S3, witli engravinc^s 
of Webster and his birth])lace, and of Marshfield. 

Mrs. Mary N. Bent. 

A South-east View of Boston, and other wood-cuts of Abel 
Bowen. Sanmcl A. Greefi, Af.D. 

State Street ; engraving by liartlett, after Lacy ; published in 
London, 1837. 

Copvof page 31 of the Dorchester Town Records. 

vSiGNiNG the Treaty of Peace between England and the United 
States, Sept. 3, 17S3 ; photograph of an old picture. 

The Evacuation of Boston, 1776; engraved by Stuart, after 
HoUis. 

The Boston Boys and General Gage ; engraving by Sharp. 

" The Freemen's Quick-step," dedicated to the Whig Com- 
mittee of 1S40, by George Hews; and other marches and 
quicksteps. 

'• The Barrel of Beer," sung bv IVLijor James Phillips at the 
dinners of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. 

Order of Exercises at the Musical Entertainment given to the 
Grand Duke Alexis at Music FLall, Dec. 9, 1S71. 

Deed of Edward Qiiincy to Maudsley, Oct., 1720; broadside. 

Meeting at Faneuil Hall for the Abolition of Slavery in the 
District of Columbia, Jan. 28, 1S42; letter-sheet. 

John S. H. Fogg, M.D. 

Silk Handkerchief, with a speech of John Brown to the Court. 
Printed by C. C. Mead. 

" Our Country ; " a Patriotic Song by George Lunt ; music by 
Woodbury. Dedicated to General Gushing during the 
War with Mexico. 

Clearance of the ship •' Dolphin; " triple photograph. 

E. V. /i'. Read. 

Flag carried by the Merchant Tailors on the visit of Washing- 
ton, Oct". 27, 17S9; photograph. L. D. Starbird. 

A Service of Plate given lo Gustavus Vasa Biooke at his fare- 
well beneiit. National Theatre, May 27, 1S53 ; lithograph. 

Satnjiel A. Green., M.D. 



102 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

Sketch of the entrance to Boston Common, from the corner of 
Park and Tremont streets, by Richard Upjohn. 

Charles E. Clark ^ M.D. 

Badge, Button, and Commission of the Reguhir Army and Navy 
Union. H. G. Collins. 

Register of schooner '• Polly," 17S6, with autograph of Gov. 
Bowdoin. George H. Davis. 

Order of Exercises at the inauguration of the Franklin Statue. 

John S. H. Fogg, M.D. 

One of the One hundred printed copies of the inscription on the 
plate laid in the corner-stone of the City Hall, Dec. 22, 
1863. John S. H. Fogg, M.D. 

Programme in Latin of the Commencement Exercises of the 
Class of 1S29, Harvard College. Henry E. Hill. 

Calendars of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Corn- 
pan}', iSSo-94. Boijaniin F. Stevens. 

Programme of the exhibition of the English High School, 1S40. 

William R. Bliss. 

A Deed from Moses Little to George Jefferds, March iS, 175S. 

Rev. Samncl B. Critft. 

History of the Honourable Artillery Company of London ; 

broadside. Albert A. Folsom. 

The Hanging of the Spanish Pirates, June 9, 1835 ; broadside. 

John F. ^ Pratt. M.D. 

Maps and Plans of streets and wharves in Boston. 

James C. Sharp. 

Programme of the Cochituate Water Celebration, 1848. 

John E. Blakcfnore. 

Ballot of the Mercantile Library Association, 1845. 

TJionias Hills. 

View of Boston ; engraving published in Paris in 1826. 

Charles E. Clark, M.D. 

The " Stars and Stripes," painted on wall paper at Thibo- 
deaux, La., Feb. 34, 1865, by Union soldiers. 

Joseph H. Wellman. 

Four Passports issued to Thomas G. Appleton, and signed by 
E. W. Livingstone, John Forsyth, Edward Everett, and 
George M. Dallas. Nathan Appleton. 

Invitation to the Centennial Celebration of the Discovery of the 
Columbia River by Capt. Robert Gray, of Boston, held 
at Astoria, Oregon, May 10, 11, i3, 1S92. 

Rev. Ed"vard G. Porter. 



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Lyman BiiECHKii's Methodism, ami other l)r();i(lsi(les. 

William If. Pnhlfcr. 

Photograph of the "Old Elm," witii citizens standini;- in front 
of it. N^aJiuni Jones. 

A Proclamation issued by Louis Philippe, July 39, 1S30, ad- 
dressed to the citizens of Paris, upon his arrival among 
them to lead the revolution of July. 

A Letter from the Church at Plymouth, dated June 26, 1671, 
recommending' John and Mary Winslovv (Marv Chilton 
of the "Mayflower") and their children to the fellowship 
of the Third Church, now the Old South Church, of 
Boston. 

The Hancock House; lithograph, 1S93. 

The Result of an ecclesiastical council called to settle the 
questions at issue between the First and Third Churches, 
dated May 28, 1674. 

An Autograph Copy of an order passed l)y the General Court 
of the Massachusetts Colony, dated May 28, 1679, in 
answer to a prayer of the reverend Clergy for a revisal of 
the platform of discipline agreed upon by the churches in 
1647, and appointing "the second Wednesday in vSeptem- 
ber, 1679," as the time when due consideration of such 
revision should be made. Written and signed by Edward 
Rawson, Secretary of the Massachusetts Colony. 

A Letter recommending Samuel Adams to the charity and fel- 
lowship of the Third, or Old South Church, signed by 
Rev. Peter Thacher, pastor of the Church in Brattle 
Square, June S, 17S9. 

A Letter Missive from tiie First Church to the Old S(nith 
Church, 1737; of Brattle-Street Church, 1785; of the 
Second Church of Dorchester, 1S08 ; this and the six pre- 
ceding are heliotype reproductions. Hamilton A. Hill. 

Bostonians Paying Excise ; a caricature ; lithograph by Pen- 
dleton. 

Certificate of Thomas Gold Appleton, a member of the 
Bunker Hill Monument Association, 1863. 

Nathan Appleton. 

Diploma of Bachelor of Arts, given to Thomas G. Appleton 
by Harvard College, 183 1 \ parchment. Nathan Appleton. 

A Passport, signed •' W. H. Seward," 1866. given to Thomas 
G. Appleton. Nathan Appleton. 

Annual Address of the carriers of the " Boston (iazette," decH- 
cated to Governor Gore, Jan. i, iSio. 



I04 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

Anthem, sung at the reopening of the Old South Meeting- 
House in 1783. 

A Brief History of the "Ancient Wreck ; " no date. 

A Letter of Governor Stoughton ; photograph. 

Address of carriers of "Paul Pry" and the "Times," 1S29; 
of the "Boston Press," 1S32 ; of the " Lamplighters," 1828. 

Six Votes of the Town of Boston, Oct. 28, 1767. 

Address of William Brown, a boot and shoe polisher, Jan. i, 
1S25. 

Fast Day and Thanksgiving Proclamations of Governor Bernard, 
1764. 

Fast Day Proclamation by Jeremiah Powell and others, for 
the people, in 1777. 

Thanksgiving Proclamation by the Colonial Congress and 
Council in 1778. 

Order of Exercises at the funeral of Dr. Winslow Lewis in 
1S75. 

A Melancholy Account of the Western Army, Dec. 19, 1791, 
General vSt. Clair's expedition. 

Votes of the Town of Boston, Sept. 12, 176S, James Otis, Mod- 
erator. 

Commissions (duplicate), signed by Governors Andrew, Briggs, 
Brooks, Claflin, Everett, Lincoln, Robinson. 

LvscRiPTioN on the plate in the corner-stone of the City Hall ; 
one of a hundred copies printed. 

Regulations of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 
1801. 

Eulogy on George W\ashington, Feb. 22, iSoo; sold by E. Lar- 
kin, Cornhill. 

Commissions of Jeremiah Page, in the Continental Army, in 177*^ ' 
signed by a majority of the Council ; two photographs. 

Certificate of Cornelius Ellis in the Boston Sea Fenciblcs, 
.Sept. 17, 1S27. 

Proclamation or pardon in Shays' Rebellion, signed by Gov- 
ernor Bowdoin in 1787- 

Resolve of the Legislature, March 24, 1786, concerning collec- 
tion of taxes. 

Deed of Mather Bvles to Samuel Danforth of land in Oxford, a 
part of Governor Stoughton's Nipmuck land. 



THE UPPER STORY. 105 

Notice of assessment b\- Harrison (iray. Receiver and Treasnrer, 
July 30, 1766, to tlie town of Stoughton. 

William Tiiomtson's address to respectable citizens of Boston, 
as candidate for Town Clerk, March 6, 1790. 

Letters from Citizens of J^oston to cities and towns in Massa- 
chusetts, ordered at a meeting at Faneuil Hall, July 26, 
1774, on the passage of tlie Boston i'ort Bill. 

Votes of the Provincial Congress at Watertown, Nov. iS, 1775. 

Certificate to George W. Adams of one dollar paid the Asso- 
ciation of Franklin Medal Scholars for the Franklin Statue, 
Oct. 5, 1S57, signed " E. Everett, President." 

Programme of the first Bunker Elill Regatta, June 17, 1859. 

Act to explain the Act of 1791, in reference to money at interest, 
June 6, 1793, "J. Hancock, Governor." 

Resolve for districting the Commonwealth for the choice of Fed- 
eral Representatives, June 30, 179-- 

"Wanted — a quantity of cloathing," Boston, Sept. 26, 1776; 
signed, "Samuel A. Otis." 

Certificate of Samuel Jacjues as member of the Massachusetts 
Society for Promoting Agriculture, Aaron Dexter, Presi- 
dent. 1S17 ; with seal. 

Photographs of buildings destroyed by the Great Fire. 

G. A'. Tahcr. 

Circular of the Executive Committee of Citizens, 1S77 ; list of 
delegates to the citizens' convention, 1S78; Boston (Eng- 
land) Church Hall ; St. Botolph's Church ; photograph of 
corner-stone of the Old South Church. //. A. Hill. 

Papers relating to the estate of John Coffin Jones. 

James R, CJiadwick^ j\I.D. 

The Old Corner Bookstore ; views of the interior and 

exterior. ,/. G. Citpplcs. 

Fac-simile reproductions of colonial documents, i773' ^774' 
1775. y^riistccs of tlie Public Library. 

Photograph of the burning of the Globe Theatre, 1S94. 

,/. W. Black. 

Photograph of the Tremont House, 1S94. J. W . Black. 

Photographs of the Roxbury floods. W. //. Reynolds. 

CoisiMissiON of Samuel Armstrong, signed by President Madison. 

Permit given to Scott, Idle, tS: Co. to import iron hoops, etc. ; 
signed by George HL, 1807; found by George W'. Arm- 
strong in the Griffin House, at the head of Griifin's Wharf, 
in 1822. 



io6 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 

License to John Delamain to import cargoes of provisions; 
signed by George III. in 1S07. 

Commission of Samuel Armstrong as Captain-Lieutenant in the 
U. S. Army; signed by Samuel Huntington, President of 
Congress, 17S0. 

Commission of Purcell Penniman to be Postmaster of South 
Milford, Mass., signed by Amos Kendall, P. M. G., 1S63. 
This and the four preceding given by D. H. Coolidge. 

Photographs of pictures of clipper ships exhibited by the Bos- 
tonian Society, 1S94. L. A. Hoi man. 

Flag of the 4th Company, 3d Reg., M.V.M. John C. LiUie. 

Plans of Brattle-Square Church. Rev. H. F. Jenks. 

Photographs of the State House, from interior and exterior 
views, 1894. 

Order concerning infectious disease, Oct. 7, 1793, by a commit- 
tee of citizens. Eben Dorr . 

Address to the freeholders of Massachusetts by the Provincial 
Congress, Dec. 10, 1774, at Cambridge. 

Elder Perry's Position ; a wood-cut caricature. 

Thanksgiving Proclamation of Governor Hancock, Nov. 8, 
1783- 

" The Hon. Samuel Lathrop and his quondam friends ; " po- 
litical broadside. 

List of Patriots who voted to support Jackson, the British 
Minister, against the United States, about 1S13. 

Speech of Hon. Benjamin Austin at Faneuil Hall, Jan. 30, 
1792. 

Engravings, lithographs, photographs, etc., of the following 
persons : 

Appleton, Nathan Brooks, Peter C. 

Andrew, John A. Belknap, Jeremy 

Adams, Mrs. Hannah Bates, Isaac C. 

Austin, Arthur W. Curtis, Benjamin R. 

Adams, John Cooper, Samuel 

Allen, Stephen M. Chauncy, Charles 

Agassiz, Louis Codman, John 

Brown, John Cass, Lewis 

Benton, Thomas H. Clinton, DeWitt 

Billings, Hammatt Chapman, Jonathan 

Butler, Benjamin F. Cornwallis, Lord 

Bainbridge, Commodore Creswick, William 

Brooks, Governor Cushman, Charlotte 



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107 



ETigravbigs^ etc.^ of the folio 

Clifford, John 11. 

Davis, John 

Davenport, John 

Devens, David 

Dexter, FrankHn 

Dexter, Samuel 

Doane, George B. 

Doughus, Stephen A. 

Ericsson, John 

ElHs, Rufus 

Emerson, George B. 

Emerson, VVilHam 

Endicott, John 

Emerson, Ralph \V'aldo 

Ely, Edward S. 

Eustis, William 

Franklin, Benjamin 

Franklin, William 

Frothingham, Nathaniel L. 

Frothingham, Richard 

Fulton, Robert 
I Goodrich, William W. 
. Greenwood, Francis W. P. 

Greenwood, Isaac 

Greenwood, John 

Green, Samuel 

Green, vSamuel A. 

Green, Nathaniel 

Gannett, Ezra S. 

Goddard, Thomas A. 

Griffin, Edward D. 

Gerry, Elbridge 

Halkett, Sir Peter 

Healy,John P. 

Harris, Thaddeus M. 

Hancock, John 

Hamilton, Alexander 

Harrison, W^illiam H. 

Holmes, Oliver Wendell 

Jackson, Andrew 

Jarvis, Edward 

Jay, John 

Jeffries, John 

Keep, N. C. 

Kuhn, Jacob 

Kirkland, John T. 

Lawrence, Amos 



vjiiig pcrsofis — Continued. 

Lee, William 
Lewis, Winsiow 
Lee, Richard Henry 
Longfellow, Henry W. 
Lothrop, S. K. 
Lowell, James R. 
Lafayette, Marquis de 
Mather, Increase 
May, Joseph 
Malcolm, Howard 
Mason, Lowell 
Minot, George R. 
Murray, John 
Murdoch, James E 
Madison, James 
Mason, John M. 
Martineau, Harriet 
Mayhew, Jonathan 
McKean, Thomas 
Morris, Robert 
Mather, Cotton 
Norci'oss, Otis 
Osgood, vSamuel 
Oswald, Eleazar 
Otis, James 
Paine, Henry W. 
Palfrey, John G. 
Phillips, John 
Price, Henry 
Pinckney, Charles C. 
Pierce, John 
Polk, James K. 
Potter, Eliphalet 
Paid, Enoch 
" Pindar, Peter" 
Prescott, William H. 
Prince, Tiiomas 
Phillips, Charles A. 
Robinson, William S. 
Rogers, Jolm 
Revere, Paul 
Ripley, Ezra 
Robbins, Chandler 
Strong, Caleb 
ShurtleH", Nathaniel B. 
Shaw, Lemuel 
Shaw, Robert G. 



io8 



BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 



E)igravings^ ctc.^ of th 

Sumner, Charles, 
Sumner, Increase 
Sprague, Charles 
Sears, David 
Stillman, Samuel 
Story, Joseph 
Sewall, Jonathan 
Summerfield, John 
Saturday Evening Club, 
Taylor, Edward T. 
Thacher, Peter 
Tha3'er, Nathaniel 
Thomas, Isaiah 
Thornton, J. Wingate 
Trefethen, Benjamin 
Trencheri, Monsieur 
Tudor, Frederick 



e foJlozving persons — Coiilinued. 

Tudor, William 
Vane, Sir Henry 
Walker, Amasa 

Washington, George, as a mason 
Warren, Joseph 
Warren, John, 17S3 
Webster, Daniel 
Wilson, Henry 
1S43-5Z) Winthrop, Robert C. 
Wakefield, Cyrus 
Worthington, Roland 
Webster, Daniel 
Winthrop, John 
Willard, Samuel 
Wells, Charles 
Wadsworth, Benjamin 



Letters and autographs of the following persons are on file in the 
clerk's oflice : 



Adams, Abigail 
Adams, John Q. 
Appleton, Nathan 
Appleton, Samuel 
Agassiz, Alexander 
Ames, Fisher 
Armstrong, vSamucl T. 
Amory, Thomas C, Jr. 
Bowdoin, James 
Bancroft, George 
Brimmer, Martin 
Briggs, George N. 
}?rooks, Peter C. 
Bates, Joshua 
Bainbridge, Commodore 
Calhoun, John C. 
Cliflord, John H. 
Claflin, William 
Cass, Lewis 
Crawford, William H. 
Cushman, Charlotte 
Cushing, Thomas 
Cushing, Caleb 
Chapman, Jonathan, Jr. 
Dearborn, Henry A. S. 
Dewey, Orville 
Davis, John 



Davis, Isaac P. 
Derby, E. Haskett 
Dickinson, Mahlon 
Dana, Richard H., jr. 
Everett, Alexander H. 
Eliot, Samuel 
Eliot, Charles W. 
Forbes, John M. 
Felton, Cornelius C. 
Frothingham, Octavius B. 
Freeman, James 
Forbes, Robert B., 
Gore, Christopher 
Gallatin, Albert 
Garrison, William L. 
Greene, Gardiner 
Greenough, Horatio 
Greenough, William W. 
Gray, Asa 
Giles, Henry 
Hancock, John 
Hull, Isaac 
Hutchinson, Thomas 
Hale, Edward E. 
Hill, Thomas 
Higginson, Thomas W. 
Harnden, William F. 



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109 



Letters^ etc.^ of the follo-vuig 

Howe, Samuel G. 
Htaly, George P. A. 
Ingram, Samuel D. 
Kendall, Amos 
Kinnicutt, Thomas 
Loring, Charles G. 
Lodge, Henry C. 
Lincoln, Levi 
Lowell, Charles 
Lawrence, Amos 
Lunt, George 

Lincoln, Frederick VV., Jr. 
Lyman, Theodore, Jr. 
Lloyd, James 
Mason, John M. 
Morse, Leopold 
McLane, Louis 
Alotley, John Lothrop 
Morley, Arnold 
Norton, Andrews 
Otis, Harrison Gray 
Peabody, Andrew P. 
Pierpont, John 
Pierce, Benjamin 
Pierce, Henry L. 
Peal)ody. George 
Palfreyl John G. 
Prescott, William H. 



pcrsofis — Coil t ill ued. 

Qiiincy, Josiah 
C^uincy, Edmund 
Rice, Alexander IL 
Rogers, William B, 
Rush, Richard 
Saltonstall, Levcrett 
Sparks, Jared 
Sedgwick, Theodore 
Shurtletr, Natlianiel B. 
Stanley, Arthur P. 
Shaw, Lemuel 
Sargent, Lucius M. 
vSumner, Charles 
Sprague, Peleg 
Savage. James 
Sullivan, William 
Thomas, Isaiali 
Ticknor, George 
Tukey, Francis 
\Valley, Samuel H. 
Warren, John C. 
Winsor, Justin 
Wilson, Heiuy 
W^ashburn, William W. 
Whipple, Edwin P. 
Winthrop, Robert C. 
Wisner, Benjamin B. 



OFFICERS OF THE BOSTONIAN SOCIETY 

1895 



rresidcut 

CURTIS GUILD 



Ch'i-k and T7-easurer 

Samuel Arthur Bent 

(Address: Old State House, Boston.) 



Curtis Guild 
^Hamilton A. Hill 
Joshua P. Bodfisii 
John Latmrop 



Directors 



David H. Coolidge 



George O. Carpenter 
Benjamin C. Clark 
James F. Hunnewell 
Le\i L. Willcutt 



Coiiiniittce on the Rooms 

George O. Carpenter I James F. Hunnewell 

Levi L. Willcuit | David H. Coolidge 

Henry W. Haynes 

President and Clerk, Ex-officHs 



^Hamilton A. Hill 



Coviniittee on Publication 



The Clerk 



Benjamin C. Clark 



Committee o)i Papers 



■Hamilton A. Hill 
Edward G. Porter 



George O. Carpenter 
Benjamin C. Clark 
Nathan Appleto'n 



James L. Whitney 

WlILIAM C. WiNSLOW 

William H. Pulsifer 



Curtis Guild 



z. t. hollingsworth 
The Clerk 



Committee on I\Ieml>ership 



Committee on tlie Librarv 



Finance Comm it tee 

1 
Benjamin C. Clark 

* Deceased. 



Albert A. Folsom 
Joseph B. Moors 
The Clerk 



S. Stillman Blanch-ard 
Francis H. Brown 
The Clerk 



George O. Carpenter 



& CHURCHILL PRf-SS. BOSTON 



